Why Would We Want to Colonize Mars?

I love science! I love space exploration, but my interest is in discovering the glorious works of our great Creator. I love discovering the intricacies of creation, not to escape the destruction of our world. –Wait! Don’t stop reading thinking this is just the prattle of a religious fanatic. Stop for a moment and really think.

  • Biology: each cell’s microscopic chemical substance, DNA’s coding with amino acids that only our super-intelligent God could write. Each biological system in humanity and animals is unbelievably complex. Cells that reproduce and carry away depleted cells. Cells that destroy and remove harmful pathogens. Stem cells that form organs in our embryonic development and gametes that come together to form new lives from the loving union of husband and wife. Look even farther into each biological system in our bodies and it is absolutely mind boggling! I mean, look at our brains!
  • Astronomy and Space exploration: The planets alignment in exact distances with perfect synchronous orbits and placement to insure a safe and stable Earth. Our star; the sun that warms our world and makes it habitable. Its’ gravity keeps all the planets in place and keeps our earth from falling out of orbit. Our moon1 that regulates tides and gives stability to its’ rotation and climate. The magnetosphere that protects life on Earth from radiation and so on.
  • Botany: Plants with complex reproductive systems and photosynthesis that absorb harmful carbon dioxide and in place produce our necessary oxygen as they reproduce and spread throughout the Earth.
  • Geology: Minerals and metals that we can use to create our own houses and machines.
    How could any truly thinking person come to the conclusion that in all this complexity it just kind of happened over millions of years?

Even in its’ fallen state, our Earth is magnificently beautiful! Our minds can scarcely imagine what the newly created Earth was like before that dreadful day when Adam and Eve chose to disobey their Creator! God created microbes and insects to clean and purify the fallen earth of the aftermath of sin which is death and decay.

The errors in our cell’s coding causing horrible disease, deformities and the degeneration of our systems from aging are all due to the fall of man bringing the curse of death on the earth. The Bible tells us that God will make a new heaven and a new earth where all disease and all evil is absent! This is when we will really escape the total destruction of the Earth as we know it.

Today’s proponents of Mars colonization see it as an emergency escape plan from the real possibility of the total destruction of Earth. They believe it is the only way to preserve humanity from total oblivion.

Christians who believe the Bible is God’s inspired and preserved instruction manual for life, know that God has said that heaven and earth will pass away (Matthew 24:35) We know that His Word is true and we can not stop it.

The Bible also tells us that our souls will live forever in one of two places after we die -Heaven or Hell. God knew our fallen state was hopeless unless He intervened. God cannot allow sin to enter His perfect heaven.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  (John 3:16)

The solution to the inevitable destruction of heaven and earth, and damnation at our death is so simple! Believe on The Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. (Romans 10:9)

Man’s sinful nature wants to be the best he can be apart from God. This is actually prideful rebellion.

Choose Him and then try to be the best you can be for His glory.

Can you say what the great Joshua of the Bible said when exhorting the Israelites to turn away from their sinful and rebellious ways?

And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:15.

  1. https://youtu.be/_zgN9vvNYYo?si=UT1m5C-ub-mLDEEV Why our moon is vital for our existence.