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Free of dust
Recently I heard a talk given by a world-renowned astronomer. He showed us beautiful pictures of nebulae—the colors and forms defying imagination. He explained that these stellar bodies were composed of cosmic dust—the substance, he said, that we are composed of. (This reminded some of us in the audience of the account in Genesis 2:7 of Adam’s creation from “the dust of the ground.”)
I asked myself what I considered were two essential qualities expressed by the men and women of God’s creating? I came up with intelligence and love. Then I thought: “If I could reach up and grab a handful of cosmic dust and put it on the table next to me, could it express intelligence and love?” Never.
That convinced me that the substance of man is not matter. No form of matter—and no combination of material elements we call our body, including, say, bones, muscles, or nerves—can express any real form of life.
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