“Why is the sky blue?” a student asked the teacher one day. “And how can the moon cover the sun during a solar eclipse if the sun is way bigger?”
The teacher nodded. “Ah, good questions—they sound simple, but they point to how amazing our world is.”
“For the sky,” she said, turning to the window, “sunlight looks white, but it’s actually made of many colors. When that light enters Earth’s atmosphere, the tiny gas molecules scatter the shorter blue wavelengths more than the others. Blue light gets spread all across the sky, reaching your eyes from every direction, so the sky looks blue.” She paused. “At sunrise and sunset, the light has to pass through more atmosphere, the blues scatter away, and you see reds and oranges instead.”
“As for our second question, the sun is much bigger—about 400 times bigger than the moon,” she said. “But it’s also about 400 times farther away, which makes them appear almost exactly the same size in the sky. So when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun, it can cover it perfectly.”
A Different Question
Science can answer lots of questions—except maybe the most important one:
Why is there something instead of nothing?
Most people don’t stop to ask why reality exists at all. We just look at what’s in front of us without stopping to ask why there’s anything there to look at in the first place.
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
—Hans Christian Andersen
A Solid Answer
The Bible doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to the answer. It opens with it.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
—Genesis 1:1 (KJV)
Something exists because Someone already did. That Someone is God the Creator, and everything we see and experience exists because He meant it to exist and brought it into being for a purpose.
Nothing Doesn’t Create
Nothing has no power, no will, no potential. If nothing were the true starting point, nothing would still be all there is. The universe didn’t reason itself into existence. Life didn’t organize itself by wishful thinking.
If you train yourself to see everything and everyone around you—in every moment of your day—as part of the incredible miracle of existence, your life will change in amazing ways. Trust me.
