Friday, December 21, 2018

Why is the Earth Tilted?


“Scientists are not entirely sure how this occurred, but they think that billions of years ago, as the solar system was taking shape, the Earth was subject to violent collisions that caused the axis to tilt.” https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/winter-solstice-wxc/index.html

I didn’t really expect CNN to adopt a Biblical point of view, but it should have. This statement is pretty amazing. The fact that “scientists” are not “entirely sure” indicates that they are now not acting as scientists at all, but rather, speculators. Their speculations are founded in a system that will not, must not consider God at all, and so they are left to reach for other possible answers, which, it seems, are tilted.

It is not difficult, from a theistic (or, God-centered) point of view, to think that the earth is tilted because of God’s wisdom and goodness. We know that we cannot plumb the depths of God’s understanding, and that the wise and good reasons for the earth being tilted go way beyond what we observe. But, at a surface level, perhaps God “tilted” the earth so that much of the earth’s population could experience seasons; so that the varieties of nature could abound; and so that the cold regions might provide a balance to the hot regions; and maybe, very superficially, so that a person living in Michigan or New York could both ski on water and also ski on snow. The earth’s tilt is better than genius. It is divine.

More difficult is coming to terms with men and women, who, adopting an un-god-ly view, can present their “tilt’s” to the world in such a way that you fail the class if you do not agree with them. For them, according to the statement above, the tilt of the earth was just a really lucky break for us all. It seems reasonable to think that without this speculated, accidental collision, life would not be even possible on earth. This “accident” can be neither wise, nor good. This kind of tilt, concocting notions because you cannot bear the thought of God, is not genius, nor divine, but rather, demonic.

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