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brought a whole new light into their lives .
We take the sun and the moon for granted . They are just there , lighting the day and illuminating the night . But when the relatively tiny moon is positioned just perfectly to blot out the immense sun for a few moments , yes this is something awe inspiring .
Eclipses don ’ t happen on other planets , even those with many moons . Our moon is just the right size and the right distance from earth . That ’ s not an accident . In relative terms , the moon is a tiny BB compared to the gigantic beach ball of the sun – and they are almost 100 million miles apart . The position of the moon must be precise for an eclipse to occur – throughout all of its trajectory across the United States . And such eclipses can be exactly pinpointed . When the last total eclipse occurred in the U . S . in 1979 scientists knew the next would be August 21 , 2017 , and what its path would be . We already know that the next will occur on April 8 , 2024 , tracking from Texas to Maine . But another in 2045 – just 28 years away – will have a corridor from California to Florida , blotting out the sun for six minutes – the longest total eclipse in the world until 2114 . Nothing random about all that .
To the millions of people who witnessed this year ’ s eclipse – either a full or partial effect , or even on television – something moved in them also and left them with a sense that they were a part of something bigger than “ our small place on earth .”
We all became one with the psalmist 3,000 years ago : “ The heavens declare the glory of God ; the skies proclaim the work of His hands .” ( Psalm 19:1 )
( BMH ) devolution , involution , evolution
Before a new form can evolve (“ roll out of ”) an existing form , the potential for the new form must first have involved or “ rolled into ” the existing form . For example : the reason an oak tree can evolve from an acorn is that the acorn came from an oak tree in the first place . It is from its source that the acorn has the potential for a new oak involved ( or enfolded , or enveloped , or embedded , or implanted ) in it .
But what gave the parent tree its potential to produce the acorn ? It got it from the acorn it grew from , of course . But that answer just pushes the problem back a generation – the old “ chicken or egg ” conundrum . The deeper question is : where did the life force that initiated and perpetuates the whole oak-acorn-oak cycle come from in the first place ?
It must have devolved or “ rolled down from ” some original , self-existing entity which did not evolve from anything prior to it but simply is . In a word , God , who is Being itself and Life Itself . It is from the Life emanating from God
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