KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Communicator
SCIENTISTS AGREE THAT the universe is constantly communicating with us...
When we hear this, most of us imagine some half-crazed researcher spending decades listening to static noise from outer space, waiting for some abnormal yet distinct pattern or variance.
For example, the 1997 movie Contact, based on Sagan's 1985 book, gave us a glamorized version of the legitimate search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In it, Ellie (played by Jodie Foster) is monitoring radio waves and signals from outer space, listening for some sort of ordered, encrypted sequece in the midst of static. She and other scientists eventually decipher a signal that is, as they describe it, "not local." As a result, they surmise that a complex, ordered pattern "can only come from an intelligent source."
THOUGHTS: Such communication can be found in our everyday existence. Consider the fact that the blueprint for who we are is intricately coded within the DNA molecules of each of our bodies. In other words, the DNA contained in every cell within your body contains information. It's filled with "instructions" -- complex, coded information. Obviously, information can't be communicated unless there's a communicator -- and in this case, an intelligent Communicator -- delivering the information. (Alex McFarland)
KneEmail: "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psm. 14:1).