Man in God’s World
Man’s vision itself is proof of the all-reaching vision of God. God wants man to be able to look at the world around him and see a reflection of the face of his Lord.
Astronomers of California spent a decade designing a revolutionary, 10-meter telescope with four times the “seeing power” of any functional telescope on earth. Finally, they needed the amount of 70 million dollars, to make the project a reality. Named after the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles, it was called the Keck Observatory, for the Keck Foundation supplied the money. When completed in 1993 and set up on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, it was the largest astronomical telescope.
The telescope, designed by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, was so powerful that, Howard B. Keck, Chairman of the Foundation predicted at that time, “It will permit one to see the light of a single candle from the distance of the moon.” The Keck Telescope enabled astronomers to see objects 12 billion light-years away. In addition, it helped them investigate the nature of quasars and explore how galaxies and stars are formed. Marvin L. Goldberger, President of Caltech, said at the time: “It should provide answers to the universe’s most challenging and basic questions.” (Newsweek, January 14, 1985)
God has created an incredibly vast universe. He has also given man the power and technology to behold the vastness of His creation. It is so that man may see the universe in all its greatness and wonder at the greatness of the One who created it; so that he may be able actually to see the things happening millions of miles away and thousands of years ago and be so dazed by the expanse of his vision that he will be moved to cry out:
“Lord, You have given light to the world. How infinitely more radiant You must be! Lord, You have given man sight. How infinitely more penetrating Your vision must be!”
Man’s vision itself is proof of the all-reaching vision of God. His existence is proof of the existence of God. The vastness of the universe is proof of the infinite vastness of God. God has created the world and man in His image. He wants man to be able to look at himself and the world around him and see a reflection of the face of his Lord. He wants man to find answers to questions relating to the creation and get to know his Creator.
