Despite the advances in science, man still knows little about everything God created.
Looking at God's creations in the vastness of space, scientists recently expressed surprise when they found out that 19 distant quasars were each surrounded by a glowing halo, the Daily Mail reported. A quasar—short for quasi-stellar radio source—is a bright light generated from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy.
Previously, the scientists saw only few quasars—one in 10—having the distinctive soft "halo," which is formed by the gas in-between galaxies.
The scientists are now asking themselves: How come we are now seeing more halos surrounding quasars? Is it because we are using new and more powerful telescopes, or something else?
The questions all point to the biblical truth that man does not have—and will never have—the full capacity to understand all the intricate details of God's creations. As written in Job 36:26: "How great is God—beyond our understanding!"
Unlike scientists who oftentimes use hard-to-understand scientific terms in describing new discoveries about the Universe, the Bible simply describes all these in the simplest and most casual way in Genesis 1:16, which states that God "also made the stars," as pointed out by Dr. Jason Lisle in Answers in Genesis.
"The biblical description makes it sound like the creation of all the hundreds of billions of galaxies was so trivially easy for God that it barely deserves to be mentioned. How awesome is the Lord!" Lisle writes.
As scientists scratch their heads on what caused the sudden appearance of the halos in quasars, which could mean that astronomers will have to rethink some of their theories about galaxy formation, Christians need only to look at the night sky to see how truly amazing God, the Creator of all things, is.
"Who could have known that [the universe] would contain hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with millions to trillions of stars, along with countless clusters and nebulae of immense size and breathtaking beauty? It seems that the more we zoom in on the universe, the more beautiful it becomes, and the more we realize how truly vast and amazing it is," Lisle says.
Thus, even as scientists continue to gasp in awe and wonder at the many surprises they see in their studies of the cosmos, people shouldn't really be surprise at the incredible majesty of the universe.
As Lisle states, "Truly the heavens declare the glory of God and the skies proclaim the work of His hands!"
