A parachute landed in the Utah desert last September, carrying the first-ever U.S. asteroid sample (250 grams). NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe was launched in 2016, and collected a sample from the near-earth asteroid Bennu. Analysis will be by the NASA team at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as well as by 200 mission members from thirty-five countries.
So far so good. Then I read the goal of the mission. Principal investigator Dante Lauretta, is hoping “that the samples contain organic molecules, the building blocks of life.” Why? As “proof” that inorganic elements can spontaneously evolve into the complex molecules that are foundational for life to evolve.
In other words, NASA is still spending billions of dollars in the hope of proving that life evolves by chance when the Bible plainly says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” and all life forms on the earth (Genesis 1). God revealed in His Word that He left evidence, His fingerprints throughout nature, so that we are “without excuse” when we do not acknowledge His existence as the Creator (Romans 1:18-20).
The apostle Paul’s statement to Timothy is applicable here, “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7). Perhaps these rocks will hold additional evidence confirming, rather than refuting, the biblical account of origins.
Source: “Asteroid Bagged,” World Magazine, October 21, 2023, p. 68; and Don’s comments.
