This is the Daily Article podcast for July 13, 2022, written by Dr. Jim Denison.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful space observatory ever launched.

Yesterday, NASA unveiled a series of high-resolution color images, revealing what it describes as cosmic

cliffs, galaxy evolution, a dying star's final performance, and the steamy atmosphere

of a distant planet in detail.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson described the significance of this ongoing work, quote,

Put simply, Webb will give humanity a new view of space and fundamentally

alter our understanding of the universe, end quote. The more we learn about a work of art, the more

we learn about the artist. The better we understand a musical composition, the better we understand

and can appreciate the composer. In the same way, the more we learn about the vastness and

complexity of creation, the more we learn about the vastness and complexity of creation, the more

we learn about the vastness and complexity of the creator. Rather than disproving or rendering

irrelevant the biblical worldview, scientific discoveries continue to show the genius of the one

whose work they study. NASA scientist Robert Jastrow famously wrote in God and the Astronomers, quote,

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad

dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak, and as

he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been

sitting there for centuries."

However, the Book of Nature is not uniform in its message.

We learn from the immensity of space the infinitude of our father.

We see in the microscopic design of a leaf the brilliance of its designer.

But we also find much in nature that seems to contradict faith in an

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