In Genesis 11:1-9 we read the familiar story of the tower of Babel. At this time in the history of man he was singular. After the flood man had a single language and seemed to inhabit one particular area, in and around Shinar. In Shinar man had the grand idea of establishing for himself a name. He proposed to do this by building a city and a tower to the heavens. Clark puts this event about 100 years after the flood and already we can see the folly of man as he again thinks of his works and ideas and seeks to establish a name unto himself.
Throughout the years of the history of man, his folly has been evident. He has built cities, established governments, overthrown the same, and all the while professed to be gaining knowledge. His search for knowledge is insatiable and while knowledge is a good thing it is also the bane of man’s existence as he has established by himself truths which are not. In Acts 26:24 Festus cried out to Paul, “Paul, you are beside yourself! Much learning is driving you mad!” Unfortunately it is the same today. As man increases in knowledge the madness for his own knowledge is ever increasing and wasteful and leads him to foolish conclusions.
Paul reminded the Corinthians of the foolishness of man in 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 and in Romans 1:19-22 Paul, by the Holy Spirit, declares that man became fools because he would not recognize and glorify God as God.
As we fast forward to today we see the babble of man continuing in many different and varying ways. He crows of global warming, cries for equality of homosexuals and their “marriage”, and preaches the “religion” of evolution. Science has surpassed faith and become the religion and god of many. These proclaim their religion loud and long knowing that the more they preach, the more the naïve of this world will eventually buy into their religion and become its proponents.
Science has finally declared the age of the universe. Through his modern day tower of Babel that has reached into the heavens, the Hubble Space Telescope, man has finally set the age of the universe at about 13.7 billion years. This is a dramatic increase, as the previous age of the universe was set at between 4 and 5 billion years. Astronomers have said that until the recent upgrades to the telescope the farthest back in time they could see was about 900 million years after the Big Bang. They state this while never being able to prove the “bang” in the first place. They say that now they can look back in time and capture the earliest images of the universe at about 600 million years after the Big Bang.
I do not profess to know anything about astrophysics, astronomy, or any related sciences, but I would simply like to know how you can look back in time by looking through a telescope? I can understand looking throughout the universe and seeing stars and galaxies in different states of growth. But I can not grasp the significance of man who seems to set himself up as being able to explain and see creation when he cannot duplicate it in any form as scientific rules dictate that he must. Man continues to build his towers of Babel for each generation all the while ignoring what God has established.
Genesis 1 is the written record of the creation of the universe. When God questioned Job in chapters 38-41 of the book He asked Job questions that man has only recently been able to confirm. The writer of Job would have no knowledge of the things presented yet they were asked to prove the omnipotence of God. Through the prophet Isaiah the earth was revealed to be a sphere, Isaiah 40:22, and from the psalmist God declared there to be paths in the seas, Psalm 8:8. How then is it that these words of old are so easily ignored, and thus the account of creation, simply because our “science” dictates to us that man evolved from a single celled organism after the unproven “big bang”?
What happened in Paul’s day, as he wrote to the Romans, continues today and will continue until Jesus’ return, Professing to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:22.
