"Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ" (I Corinthians 11:1)
The ST. PAUL SCHOOL, with Frank Eiklor, Eileen Young and Walter and Cecilia Contreras

THE UNIVERSE AND YOU

(EINSTEIN'S BIGGEST BLUNDER)

Ask the average American, "Who was the most brilliant man that ever lived?" and you usually get the answer "Albert Einstein". But few realize that this man with the amazing brain admitted to "the biggest blunder of my life".

It went like this. At the beginning of the 20^th century, many scientists said that the Genesis account of creation was only a religious story. They said that the universe had no beginning and would have no end. It was called the "static theory", and it let the big brains of the day teach that there was no need of God.

Einstein knew better. His brilliant life work about the laws that governed the universe spoke of expansion that required a beginning. Other scientists took Einstein's equations and proved that the universe was indeed expanding. It had to have a beginning-and it was coming to an end.

However, to have a beginning, there had to be a cause. This sounded too much like "God", so many scientists refused to accept the truth. Not wanting to rock the boat, Einstein revised his equations to please the scientific crowd. But the conspiracy to lock God out of His universe began to fall apart in 1923 with Elwin Hubble's discovery of galaxies beyond our own. In the next six years the findings could not be buried. Distant galaxies were retreating from us at incredible speed, space itself was moving and our universe was expanding. That meant that our universe had begun at a specific moment in time (sounds like Genesis to me!).

Einstein finally admitted that in trying to agree with false science, he had made "the biggest blunder of my life". From then on he took his stand and spoke of the "necessity of a beginning". He even wrote of wanting "to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thought; the rest are details."

What a God we serve. So big that the universe must be like a grain of sand to the One who told Moses "I Am that I Am". And just as He spoke it all into existence, so we read in the Scriptures: "You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands: They shall perish; but You remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment; And as a vesture shall You fold them up, and they shall be changed: but You are the same, and Your years shall not fail." (Hebrews 1:10-12)

So young soldiers of Jesus Christ, never fear to stand up for the truth (as Einstein once was). You serve the awesome God who says, "I will baffle and render useless and destroy the learning of the learned and the philosophy of the philosophers and the cleverness of the clever...Has not God shown up the nonsense and the folly of this world's wisdom? (1 Corinthians 1:19,20 Amplified Bible)

In our next study-the incredible blind faith it takes to be an atheist.