Light pollution: A distracting light
Dan Kuiper, a science teacher at Covenant Christian High School, uses the phenomenon of light pollution as an analogy for how earthly distractions obscure our spiritual vision of God's glory revealed in creation. The article examines both the scientific mechanisms of how artificial light interferes with our ability to see the stars and draws a spiritual parallel to how the pursuit of worldly pleasures clouds our perception of God's Word, encouraging readers to maintain clarity in their vision of the divine.
Earth is part of the Milky Way galaxy, a spiral galaxy that contains an estimated 100 billion stars and stretches an incomprehensible 100,000 light years in diameter.1 On the darkest nights, we are able to view only a minuscule percentage of those stars with the naked eye and, yet, they act as an innumerable host that declares God's glory. When we sit in stillness under the night sky and consider the work of God's hands, we are reminded that He has set each star in its place and calls each one...
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