When I am 40,000 feet above the Sahara desert on my way home from Kenya, I get rather sentimental. It gives me time to think about a lot of people and their problems as well as my family and how much I love them. Sometimes I even write poetry but usually discard it. The view from the window of the plane reveals the great expanse of nothing but sand for hundreds of miles. That may seem insignificant but the Lord made every grain of sand and declared that it was good. On one trip, I watched the Aurora Borealis from the plane window for miles. It was like a huge lightning storm, only silent. The massive curtain of light was captivating but terrifying.
Flying gives a perspective that isn't appreciated from ground level. To think the wonders I have seen are mere toys compared to the unseen galaxies of the Universe. It is reported that Dr. Stephen Hawking and other quantum physicists say they are close to discovering the beginning of the Universe. The only thing standing in their way is how to deal with gravity in the role of matter and space. The ultimate example of gravity is what Dr. Hawking describes as "black holes" which they believe are at the center of all galaxies and have such gravitational force that even light cannot escape. Scientists also believe there is something among the galaxies which is unseen but physical in nature that they call "dark matter." It is obvious to the scientific field that there is order to the Universe so they have come up with the idea that there is some sort of a force holding it all together. They call it the "dark force." Do you see a pattern here? Scientists talk about discoveries of things that cannot be proven and are unseen therefore they label them "dark." An interesting book title is The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything by Mol Smith. Smith claims the number 42 explains everything. Albert Einstein was also working on a "theory of everything" which he never completed. He spent the last 30 years of his life chasing after an equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, that would explain all physical phenomena. Everything from Creation, to supernovas, to atoms and molecules, perhaps even DNA, people, and love was to be explained by this equation. If discovered, it was to have been the ultimate achievement of 2,000 years of investigation into the nature of space and matter. It was an attempt to "read the mind of God."
The average Christian could settle the whole issue of the Universe with the biblical account of Creation. The scientist stumbles in the darkness while overlooking the fact that God illuminated all matter with the light of His presence when He created (Genesis 1:3). All things both material and immaterial were permeated with the glorious presence of the Son of God and are held together, not by a dark force, but by the Spirit of the Son, the light of the world (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 1:2). Quantum physics, like evolution, is just another means of trying to eliminate God. As persistent as scientists are, they cannot explain from where this single atom that supposedly exploded into the entire Universe came nor what the force was that caused the "big bang." They are straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.
Instead of discovering amazement at the revelation of God's immense power in Creation, science tries to explain how nothing created something, a theory of shear impossibility. Nothing cannot create something-it is nothing. On the other hand, God, the efficient Cause of everything, simply spoke and it was. Hebrews 11:3 declares that the worlds were constructed out of nothing ("ex nihilo"). When unbelievers miss the foundation on which all truth stands, that God is, they are left with a desperate and futile search into the abyss of darkness. Quantum physics either must lead to the eternal presence of a Creator or else will end in the darkness they seek.
Of all the intrigue of God's magnificent revelation, one event stands alone; that the Creator would depart the throne of glory to take His place on a cross for the penalty of man's sin. To gaze into the night sky at innumerable stars certainly causes one to ponder the immensity of God but nothing expresses the love of God like the loneliest place of heaven and earth when Jesus cried out in agony on the cross, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?" In those few hours of unimaginable suffering, is the answer to everything. He bore our sin because of sacrificial love while His Father in Heaven turned away from Him in 3 hours of darkness.
I have become friends with a young Maasai man in Kenya who is a believer. Each time I see him he says, "When I think of my sin and the cross, I cry." That is quite an admission for a Maasai warrior. He wears a traditional tribal sword and can use a spear but has found the answer to everything.