# “The sun is an astonishing creation” by Andrew Davis

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2011/04/29/the-sun-is-an-astonishing-creation-by-andrew-davis/
- Published: 2011-04-29T07:00:41-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“The sun is an astonishing creation– a raging inferno of power that in some ways
displays God’s transcendence to an arrogant human race. There is nothing humanity
can do to the sun, good or bad. We cannot make it brighter or dimmer, larger or 
smaller, nearer or farther, hotter or cooler. If we decided as a human race that
we wanted to destroy the sun, there would be nothing we could do to it.

If we amassed all our thermonuclear weapons and sent them as intergalactic rockets
to explode on the surface of the sun, they would never make it but would be incinerated
millions of miles away from their destination. NASA is presently planning a solar
probe mission that will be able to get only within 3.5 million miles of the surface.

The sun burns on day after day without any visible diminution of its power, so bright
we cannot look at it steadily without being blinded. The sun glorifies God by its
astonishing power and brightness, and yet the sun was designed with human beings
in mind, shining in the sky ‘to give light on the earth’ (Gen. 1:17).”

–Andrew Davis, [_Creation_ ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433527634?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
[The Gospel Coalition Booklets](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433527634?tag=toletaupanre-20);
Wheaton: Crossway, 2011), 16-17.

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