It's not uncommon to meet religious people who view science with skepticism. President Eyering's father told him that we have nothing to fear from science. I believe that. I read an article that said if humans are around in 3 trillion years, the universe will have expanded so much by then that it will be impossible to see any other galaxies around us.
I know this isn't terribly important to our salvation, but imagine for a moment (or hypothesize with me), if you will, that God created this world via the Big Bang and the universe truly is expanding at an accelerated rate. Geological records say that man appeared 6-30 billion years after the earth first became solid rock.
That would mean that God placed us here at a certain time that would give us that ability. Perhaps it is even a narrow window of time of only a few billion years while that was still possible. And isn't it cool that we've been blessed with technology now to see the same things that Moses was able to see in his great vision recorded in the Pearl of Great Price? We can literally see more of God's creations than any generation previous, and they are beautiful. It's incredible. God is awesome!
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I agree! I value my education so much partly because I am able to study and see some of God's genius as he created the things we take for granted... the air we breathe, how our bodies just work and we don't even have to think about it, and everything else. I love to study these things, even if the science isn't perfect, the curiosity of mankind and their theories are intriguing. Sometimes, when I get thinking about everything out there, all the worlds created and how God is really watching over each one of us and how he knows what decisions we will make because to him, all time is present, my head hurts and I just have to stop thinking, ha. It just reminds me of how small and insignificant I am and how much I just really don't know, but I'm excited for what I have the potential to know someday.
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