Our solar system, some say is over 6 or 7 billion years old. There are millions of other solar systems that are much older and more that are younger. The first signs of life on earth dates back 3.7 billion years as microbes left their presence in rock strata. Our human ancestors emerged a paltry six million years ago while modern forms of humanity have only been populating our planet for some 200,000 years. Human civilization, as we know it, is less than 6000 years old while the industrialized world of human kind has only been around a short 200 years. What are we to say about these numbers?
If the age of the earth can be equated to a trip from Los Angeles to New York City, recorded human history then began no less than half way across the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan. Go figure!
One explanation is to accept the Godless evolutionary philosophies of the intelligentsia. Those of us who believe that life can not be explained apart from a divine directive would simply say that our creative God is patient, our time is not God's time.
What does a patient creative God say to you and I? Our tomorrows may be better or worse but our struggles and our victories will somehow fit into the creative plan of our patient God of the galaxies.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
