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Using a giant drill ship, Japanese scientists are set to explore the centre of the earth. According to The Guardian newspaper ( June 4, 2005), the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and reach the mantle below.

Samples taken from the mantle may tell scientists more about what triggers undersea earthquakes, give them records of past climate change and possibly reveal whether the deepest regions of the earth could harbour life.

Meanwhile, NASA scientists are looking in the opposite direction for clues about the origins of life (The Guardian: June 11, 2005). After a voyage of more than six months and 268m miles, the Deep Impact spacecraft will intercept the Tempel-1 comet traveling at 23,000mph and fire a one-metre copper projectile into it, showing astronomers watching the explosive impact what lies inside.

No matter what the cost, it seems that the search for life and its causes will go on. Whether it’s looking far beneath our feet or over our heads, the search for more facts about life on earth will never be over.

The hidden message
While no one could fail to be impressed by the technology that makes these searches possible, far fewer people stop to think about life itself. As the results are published and the papers fill with pictures never seen before, they will only add to the truly amazing facts about life that surround us all.

For a start, shooting at a moving target is never easy, let alone one moving as fast as Tempel-1. Yet without the well-ordered and predictable movement of earth itself, launching spacecraft to intercept comets would be impossible and life here on earth would not exist.

Like the rest of the universe, the earth does not move on a random path through endless space, but it follows a route set down for it to follow that guarantees the existence of life itself.

When God destroyed the world in the time of Noah, he made a promise that has been kept ever since:

“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” (Genesis 8v22)

As a witness to his promise, he placed the rainbow in the sky to remind us all of his love for all his creation (See Genesis 9v12-17). Since that time, the seasons have come and gone as regularly as clockwork, governed by the precise and predictable movements of planet earth.

Recent movements in the earth’s crust had terrible consequences around the Indian ocean. Every reason then to understand these movements better and, if possible, devise ways to avoid such disasters in the future. Learning more about the ground under our feet will certainly help.

God is in control
But in our search for ways of mastering our planet, it’s easy to forget that it’s God, not man, who is in control. No amount of knowledge will stop earthquakes happening. Neither will the discovery of new living creatures deep down beneath our feet bring solutions to this world’s problems. For that to happen, the Bible tells us that God must be involved.

The existence of life on the surface of this planet is a miracle in itself. By creating this world in the way he did, God made life possible here for a particular purpose. Even though disasters come and go, the future of this planet is in God’s hands and will soon achieve his declared purpose:

“For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” (Habakkuk 2v14)

The creator who created life in all its forms and who in the beginning:

“…measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance” (Isaiah 40v12)

will also ensure that his creation is not destroyed.

Those scientists now searching for life over our heads or beneath out feet will, no doubt, bring new facts to light that will amaze us all. But what’s more amazing is that the message in the Bible about life now and in the future is being overlooked by so many people.

Now you can begin the search for eternal life. You don't have to look far - it's in the Bible. The only cost is your time!