Today some fellows at work were contemplating the age old question, "Whether there is a dumb question or not." I for one think that there can be, but I probed further and asked why they were debating such a profound and philosophical topic. One said that the other had asked a dumb question.
I asked what the question was so that I could pompously give the final verdict on the matter. His question was this, "Why don't planets collide into each other?" Was it a dumb question? You might think so on the surface, but actually it is quite a good question. That's because it gets at the nature of our universe--and the God who created it.
The fellow who asked it most certainly had been raised with the "Big Bang" theory pounded into his skull all through school. The Big Bang says that all the laws of physics were suspended for a moment when all of a sudden, stationary matter exploded for no particular reason (matter at rest tends to stay at rest). My co-worker's question comes into focus now, "Being that the laws of nature were defied once, why couldn't it happen again and the planets freakishly skip out of their orbit and come knocking into ours?"
My friend's question goes beyond mere scientific explanation of planetary revolutions, it gets at why there is even order in the universe in the first place. The answer is that the the One who created the universe in an orderly fashion continues to sustain that creation by His righteous, omnipotent hand.
My friend's question is more thoughtful than he may think, for it gets at the failure of modern scientific speculation. The Big Bang theory cannot give one any peace and security. It will ultimately leave one shaking in your boots wondering if/when we'll all be crushed. But the God of the Bible allows one to rest easy, for he stretched out the heavens in his hand and hung each of the planets in its place.
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