If you are on social media and follow the news, you have probably seen people sharing and commenting on remarks about God made by US astronaut Victor Glover.
He is one of the four astronauts—one Canadian (Jeremy Hansen) and one female (Christina Koch)—who just returned to earth after a 10-day lunar flyby mission. For readers who may not know, this means the astronauts did not land on the moon. They orbited it.
Mr Glover is the first black astronaut to take part in a manned moon mission—and he piloted Orion, the spacecraft the astronauts used to fly around the moon.
After his return, he said: “When this started on April 3, I wanted to thank God in public, and I want to thank God again. The gratitude of seeing what we saw, doing what we did, and being with who I was with, it’s too big to just be in one body.”
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Since Mr Glover made his comments, religious people have seized on them, saying they constitute evidence of the existence of God.
Another astronaut, Reid Wiseman, said: “I’m not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything.
“So I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to just come visit us for a minute. And when that man walked in—I’d never met him before in my life—but I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears like that.”
He added: “I don’t think humanity has evolved to the point of being able to comprehend what we were looking at right now. Because it was otherworldly. It was amazing.”
Both astronauts’s comments provide zero evidence that the creator exists. They simply suggest the astronauts were struck by awe—and that is it.
In fact, the astronauts have done what many people have previously done: whenever they look at something that fills them with awe and they cannot understand how it started to exist, they invoke God.
A creator of the universe does not have to put evidence of his existence in space for four astronauts when it is much easier to make it readily available for anyone one who exists.
How do people who cannot travel around the moon see the evidence—if indeed it is evidence?
Awe is universal, and I think evidence must be too. If only a handful of astronauts can “see” it, then it is not evidence.
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