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A Word From Our Associate . . .
My Space Travel Theory
I have this theory about the evolution of man and the world. I believe that in the distant future, human beings will travel to other solar systems, and inhabit certain planets, which can sustain life. In the near future, I think we will set up a space station on the moon and people will dwell there. Scientists have been searching for water sources, for example on the moon (on Mars and this moon by Jupiter), and have discovered a reservoir, or ice field underneath the moon's surface. And where there is water, oxygen can be obtained. And where there is sunlight and water, forms of life may be able to develop and grow.
Why couldn't life exist on other planets, in other solar systems? If there are planets similarly distant from their suns, as earth is to ours, then temperatures would allow for life to exist, and if water sources are available, then one might say it's not so much a possibility that life exists there, but a great probability! I'm no chemist or biologist, nor much of a cosmologist or anthropologist. (Boy I'm getting the feeling that I really better do more research, even as I write.) Nevertheless, I do believe that God has a great plan for mankind in space, and I believe the evolution of our research and technology will lead us there. One day, I believe we will discover other forms of plant life and animal life on distant planets...and not to startle you too much, even possibly rational life! Boy, I sure would love to live in just such an era.
I base my opinions on recent technological advances, and upon what we have learned about the development/evolution of man and the world. However, I also have theological reasons. In the Book of Genesis, chapter 1:28, God says to the man and woman He just created, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it& " I interpret "fill the earth," to mean, "fill the universe." Thus, it would have been God's plan before all creation, that human beings would travel through space, and inhabit other planets. (Maybe God has a marvelous plan, for a "population crisis", which those who worry so much, would not have foreseen?) The second Scripture which comes to mind is from Matthew 10:23. Jesus says to the disciples, "truly I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes." Now the point of the passage is the urgency of proclaiming the Gospel, but could not one also read into the text the following message: the "towns of Israel," represent not only the "cities of the world," but every "peoples alive throughout the universe" (or, who will eventually "multiply" throughout the universe). Thus, God's plan for the salvation of souls, from the beginning of time, would have included a desire for the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be preached to the ends of the universe. Maybe God was hinting at more, when He promised Abraham, "I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numbers as the stars of heaven& " (Genesis 22:17).
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