No Man's Sky

A few months ago, June 2014 to be exact, a company called Hello Games released a video showcasing their new game called, “No Man’s Sky”. By the time the 3 minute video ended most who watched were utterly astounded. Wonder and amazement have followed this team of developers ever since that video was shown. Why? Because the game itself contains an entire (make-believe) universe, with so many planets that it would take you 5 billion years to explore each one for one second. There has never been a game quite like No Man’s Sky before.

When onlookers started to understand the vast nature of this game, one question was continually asked: How did you do it? You know, I wonder what people would think if they said, “We just started up our computers one day, and there it was!” Nobody would believe that, right? It’s absurd to think that such a complex and massive game could possibly exist simply by chance, right? 

And yet, that’s exactly what people believe about the REAL universe in which we live. Theories like the Big Bang and Evolution have many believing in the absurd idea that an infinitely complex and expansive universe could exist completely by chance, without a Creator of any kind. I’m sorry, but that logic doesn’t track. If a video game, with relatively few moving parts, MUST have a creator, then the universe, with infinitely many moving parts, MUST ALSO have a Creator. The Bible says that’s exactly what our Creator wants us to see:

...that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.  (Romans 1:19–20, NASB95)

Part of the reason our planet and universe are so complex is so that we will realize that it wasn’t created by chance, it was created by the all-powerful, all-knowing, eternal God, who deserves our honor and obedient submission. 

Tonight, take a step outside or look out your window at the stars and be amazed, because that’s no man’s sky. We could never create something so massive and beautiful. God has created it for our amazement, and so that we would understand that He is God and worship Him.