God or Science?

The other day I saw a show on the Science Channel titled Supervolcanoes. It was talking about a possible erruption of a super-volcao at Yellowstone national park. In the show geneticists were discribinig a discovery they made involving a special type of DNA called Mitochondrial DNA (mDNA).

In studying human DNA they discovered that mDNA mutates on a regular basis over time. I should also note that mDNA is only passed down by the mother to the child. That enabled the geneticists to track with confidence the mutations in the mDNA. They expected to see a constant rate of mutations, but they were suprised to find that the mutations pointed back to a cataclysmic event that almost destroyed the entire human population! One of those interviewed even went as far as to draw an hour-glass shape and to say that from his research there was a large human population, then a "bottle-neck" where most people died, and then a resurgence of human population.

Hmmm.........That sounds vaguely like something recorded in Genesis about a flood.

Genesis 7:23:
"So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive."

I am amazed that none of the scientists interviewed even mentioned the flood. They spoke like they had no direction. Science is not a bunch of facts thrown onto a spread sheet. Science was created by God and it is woven throughout all the universe. They may have gathered the facts, but the interpretation of the facts often misses the mark. But why?

2 Corinthians 4:3-6 speaks of life without Jesus and life with Jesus. Without Him, the god of this age, Satan, blinded our minds and veiled the truth. But those who believe in Jesus, those who have been forgiven, have been given sight where they once were blind. "For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

We have the Holy Spirit of God living in us to show us the truth and to help us understand it. The geneticists did not create the facts, they uncovered them. But it takes God's light and gift of spiritual sight to understand them in truth.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Is He the anchor in your life or are you drifting lost at sea? Ask God to open your eyes and mind to understand His truth.

---Johnie
July 5, 2008