The Heavens declare the glory of God not the majesty of man. A telescope does not testify to the ingenuity of man as much as it does to the genius of God. There are things to see because He made and because He made eyes. The medieval cosmology is far more consistent with an appreciation for the handiwork of God than the modern void that we call "space." We imagine a cold, dark nothingness that is as expansive as it is empty. But that is the universe the Lord created. He did not whisper, "Let there be light!" He spoke into the formless, empty, void and brought forth light, life, form, and function. The earth is the Lord's the fullness thereof, but so is the universe and the fullness there as well. There is no emptiness anywhere. All matter is infused with meaning. All the molecules matter and none of them has been orphaned or quarantined to cold, forgotten obscurity. The spheres do not have value because we found them, they had value before we saw them, and they will have value when we can see them no more.
“'In our world,' said Eustace, 'a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.' 'Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.'” ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Heavens are full of life, not death punctuated by a fire ball here an there. The night sky is full of twinkling reminders that the light of the world sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty an that in Him all things hold together and shine at their assigned times and seasons.
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