What was God’s purpose in creating the world, creating us, and creating the space that the world exists in? There is no doubt that God created everything we see around us, and even the things we cannot see, he created them all. Colossians 1:16 says, “For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible…everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.” God also created human beings in his image, and sent us out into all the world making disciples of all nations. But God also has another purpose for humans, as can be seen in Revelation 4:11b which says, “You created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created!” God takes pleasure in us, and he takes pleasure in his creation. On the seventh day, he surveyed all that he had created and said “it is good.” If God says his creation is good, and takes pleasure in it, then it is the truth. It is our (human beings) interaction with that creation that is called the cultural mandate.
The cultural mandate is God’s call for us in Genesis 1:28, to “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it.” The early writers of the Bible never conceived that some time in the future human beings would have the capabilities to explore space in any way or form. In the same sense, the early writers did not even imagine the existence of living entities smaller than a speck of dust on the molecular level. Therefore, the study of God’s creation is like looking through a scope. This scope can be a telescope or a microscope but either way, as humankind has developed so has technology and with it the capabilities to study creation on many vast new levels. A millennium ago people were not even aware of the existence of atoms or have the ability for space exploration. So, as our cultural development has expanded so has our cultural mandate along with it.
The Essay on Explication Of Blake Gods Creation
The poetry of William Blake is renowned for its critique of society and injustice as well as expressing strong religious influences. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were written concerning the destiny of the human spirit and the differences between how children and adults view and understand the world. Blake believed that man had the potential to attain both wisdom through experience ...
The first artificial satellite was called Sputnik 1 in 1957. The word artificial refers to man-made and not naturally occurring and satellite denounces that it has an elliptical orbit around a planetary body, in our case the earth. 1961 marked the year of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union, put a different outlook on our cultural mandate and launched our culture into the space exploration realm. Since Sputnik in 1957, more than a thousand satellites have been sent up into space. These satellites are used for varying purposes including exploration and communications. Satellites are used for cell phones, laptops, radio, television, phone companies, and many more communication mediums. All of these things have its place in our world today because of Sputnik and the beginnings of space exploration.
Space exploration, although firstly achieved in 1957, has its principles traced as far back as the 11th and 17th centuries. The invention of the first rockets can be contributed to inventors in the 11th century and the Laws of Motion can be contributed to Sir Isaac Newton of the 17th century. Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal an opposite reaction. It is through these age old laws of motion that space travel is achieved. Satellites serve many purposes; most of these purposes have nothing to do with space exploration. Satellites are for the convenience of everyday people who use telephones or surf the internet.
But these modern conveniences would not currently have their place in our society had it not been for the inventors and theorists who were following their cultural mandate. Space exploration has more tangible results such as social and economic impacts. The motivation for space exploration is much grander then simply making the “S” encyclopedia a little bit bigger. God created all of these things, everything from tangible people and space crafts to the invisible laws of motion, and all of them give him praise and glory, as well as pleasure.
The Essay on Space Exploration 8
Space exploration Does it make any sense in a world where so many people live in abject poverty? Space exploration has advanced a lot through the last years. Specially in the Cold War, where the United States and the Soviet Union competed between them and invested a lot in this field. Since then, U.S.A. kept on with this project of sending ships into outer space and exploring through the endless ...
Although the motivations of our secular societies for space exploration and satellite development may not always be to the glory of God, He still takes pleasure in watching us interact in His created universe. During the cold war the initial motives behind space exploration was the fight for political and scientific superiority between the Soviet Union and the United States. The cold war gave good reasons for the space race, to get people into space and also the moon race to successfully land a person on the moon and return safely. Apollo 8 astronauts were the first humans to travel around the moon, and Apollo 11 astronauts were the first humans to successfully land on the moon and return, thus ending the space race.
A number of years after the cold war, in 1993, the U.S government redefined its intentions for the future of the NASA program, to strive for an international space station with Russia as a partner. Japan and Canada are also contributors to the space station building project and the onboard experimentation. The NASA space program originally started out as a power struggle between the U.S and the Russian governments. Presently the space program represents the unity of the countries in what they can accomplish together instead of being adversaries.
Probably the most commonly expressed argument of the space exploration program is the cost. The NASA moon program in the early 1990’s cost approximately $100 billion dollars. That was a lot of money back then, and even for today that figure is overwhelming. This kind of money was huge for the United States just after the cold war. But since the cold war this problem has been addressed. Financial budgets have been steadily lowering the space program budget to have more manageable numbers.
The Term Paper on Main Function Program World Compiler
This is an introductory essay on C programming. It assumes that you know varying amounts about computers and programming in general. First, I recommend that you purchase The C Programming Language, Second Edition by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie (referred to by everyone as K&R 2), and also Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by Peter van der Linden, and keep both at your side while ...
The current International space station has many supporters including: Canada, Japan, Russia, the European Space Agency (ESA) as well as the United States. All of these combined countries pooling costs and resources make space exploration a more economic reality by balancing expenses. Another exploit that has been in the works for quite some time that could seriously lower costs of space travel is a more cost efficient re-usable shuttle. The U.S X-Prize Foundation in 1996 offered $10 Million dollars to the first private team to build and fly three passengers to a height of 100 km in a reusable spacecraft. Another method, though less exciting, but ultimately safer, is to fly unpiloted space missions. Costs are drastically decreased when food and life support systems are not needed in a space vessel. Unmanned space probes can spend months or even years traveling and exploring through our solar system, while gathering just as much or even more information then if a human being was on board. So the daunting 100 Billion dollar price tag that comes with space exploration really isn’t that extreme because of the many countries involved, technological improvements and the communication benefits, that result from the NASA program and its partners.
The kings of Portugal, France, and Britain all refused to help Columbus in his expedition to find an alternate trade route to the Indies. They thought it a waste of time, money, and resources. Ferdinand and Isabella, the king and queen of Spain, who after much convincing on Columbus’ part, granted him three ships, money and a crew of ninety men. We all know the rest of the story, and here we are today, in the New World. But now, humankind has been to the moon and back, which raises a question in all of us. Should we return? What if after Columbus no one ever returned to the New World? Our world would be very different from what it is today if Amerigo Vespucci, Bartholomew Dias, Vasco da Gama, and Jacques Cartier had not later gone to the New World.
Many explorers followed the cultural mandate, and even if it was not their intention, they gave glory and pleasure to God. Where would we be today if Columbus had only made one trip to the New World? It is quite remarkable that North America was called the “New World.” Many people in Europe at the time may have wondered why anyone would want to use their time, energy and finances to cross the ocean to a new land. Someday space explorers, if it be God’s Will, may discover, as Columbus did, a new world. And this new world will not be across the ocean, but in the vastness of space…
The Essay on Was the Space Race Worth the Cost?
Was the space race worth the cost? The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US) for supremacy in space exploration. Between 1957 and 1975, the Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration, which were seen as necessary for national security and symbolic of technological and ...
Is space travel worth the cost and included in God’s cultural mandate? God said that all of His creation was good, which includes all of the visible and invisible things that he created. God created: me, you, animals, planets, and even space. Everything finds its purpose in God, and human beings are called to develop and rule over all the things that God has created. Our cultural mandate is the same as a thousand years ago but our capabilities are greater because of the technology available to us. Even as people like Columbus, Isaac Newton, and Jacques Cartier followed their own cultural mandate, we must do the same.
The daunting cost of the space program is not too extreme because of all of the countries involved, and new technology has made space travel even available to private sources. Finally, the space program represents more than enlarging our encyclopedias, but it represents tangible uses for communication. The International Space Station represents the unity of many countries working peacefully together toward a common goal in space travel. Space development and space exploration is worth the time, the money, and our support; for who knows what will be discovered as we all strive to fulfill our God given cultural mandate.
