By Sophia Gliwa –
As they orbited in space or walked on the moon, three astronauts marveled at God’s splendorous creation.
“The beauty of it hit — that vision of Earth. It’s a beautiful planet. You don’t see any evidence of civilization. It’s just that jewel suspended in the blackness of space,” said Gen. Charlie Duke, who spent 20 hours on the moon. “Scripture says, When God made the earth, he suspended it upon nothing. (Job 26:7) That’s exactly what it looks like.”
Science doesn’t undermine faith; it underscores it, Duke says on Answers in Genesis.
“In the age of science in the 1600s, the 1700s, you had names like Kepler, Isaac Newton, Bole, Maxwell — all those guys were believers,” says Col. Jeffrey Williams. “They were driven in their calling in scientific endeavor by their understanding of the Bible and convinced that God provisioned his creation in an ordered way. There was a mathematical order to it, a chemical order, a physical order that makes science possible.”
Williams spent record 534 days in space. Each day in space, he orbited the earth 16 times.
“The biggest wow for me is the grandeur of this place that we call home which God created and uniquely provisioned for our habitation that we call earth,” Williams says.
Nikita Krushchev, touting the atheism of communism as the head of the USSR, bragged that the first man in space, Cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin, hadn’t seen God from space. “Gagarin flew into space but didn’t see any God there,” said the premier, famous for almost triggering nuclear was with the U.S.
While Krushchev put words into the mouth of Gargarin, the Soviet cosmonaut himself was a baptized member of the Russian Orthodox Church, according to Soviet Col. Valentin Petrov, who quoted him as saying, “An astronaut cannot be suspended in space and not have God in his mind and his heart.”
So too many American astronauts.
Captain Butch Wilmore, famously stranded in space for 286 days at the International Space Station when Boeing’s Starliner propulsion system failed, similarly can’t help by see space as evidence of God’s creation.
“Many times I am introduced as an astronaut, but if I were to describe myself I certainly wouldn’t call myself an astronaut,” Wilmore says. “The way I see myself is as a wretched sinner that is saved by grace.”
Gilmore made it back to Earth in March 2025 aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
“The Bible is not a science book, but where it speaks to science it is 100% accurate,” Wilmore says.
Duke, Williams and Wilmore affirm that Earth is a sphere and that Christians hoodwinked into believe the world is flat is a dangerous naïveté.
“If you can be caught up in that kind of system of belief, you’ve completely detached yourself from the truth, the truth of scripture, and who knows where else you’re going to go,” Jeffery says. “So I think it’s a very dangerous, heretical line of thinking.”
Aside from the thousands of pictures from space that always show the earth to be round, you have the testimony of 637 astronauts form different countries who have orbited the earth. There are 400,000 people in space programs around the world who would all have to concert to lie to the world.
This article was first published on Pilgrim Dispatch.
