How little we know!

Today has been a bizarre day. I have nearly broken my right wrist and my left big toe and I have also had a theological discussion about evolution which went on to discussing the probability of the existence of unicorns, dragons, the Leviathon and the Behemoth.

The Unicorn, the Leviathon and the Behemoth are all mentioned in the Bible. In Job 38 and 39 though depending on your translation it could say Ox rather than Unicorn. Unicorn is also mentioned in Numbers 23:25. For those of you who may be reading this and have no clue what I am on about google biblegateway and type in the references I mentioned. Likewise any Christians who do not know their Bibles should also, not mentioning any names but a clue is heresy bell. Only joking! Cliff College joke for those who do not go Cliff College.

Anyway what I find weird is how can an Unicorn also be called an Ox? What does a Unicorn look like? Does it exist? I think it may have done but is now extinct. But then what does the Leviathon and Behemoth look like? We have descriptions in Job but it is very hard to picture. The point of this though is how little we know.

Just this week the HMS Victory was found after a 250 year search, it was only about forty miles away from England where it's voyage began. How bad are we at knowing our world? 250 years to search 40 miles of ocean. The fact is scientists say we have only explored 5% of our oceans is shocking for what we would called the Post-modern world. We are meant to be the best and most intelligent civilisation yet which is mapping huge swathes of the galaxy this very moment yet we do not even know our own home., our own planet.

I read an article on the BBC website that said that some scientists had been messing about on google earth a while back. In the process they discovered a forest they never knew existed. They have since been and discovered many new species of plants and animals.

How bad is that? We are stewards of the earth yet we still do not know our own world. I don't know about you but that makes me just want to go wow. 75% or so of our world is water, 95% of that is unexplored. That means we have only explored a third of our planet. I wonder what wonders still await us? I can't wait and am positively excited at what our future holds. I can't wait to see what God has in store for us here on earth. Praise God for his creation, for all he has made. In Psalm 147:4,5 it says:

4 He counts the stars
and names each one.
5 Our Lord is great and very powerful.
There is no limit to what he knows.

God knows all the planets, knows all the galaxies, know all the planets and knows every detail. We know a third of one planet in one galaxy that holds about a billion stars, billions of planets and is only one of billions of galaies in our universe. I hope you feel small. You should. God has chosen Earth, God has chosen humans and God has chosen us above all of his creation. Praise God!