Should we bother to go to great lengths to save humanity, or should we place our trust in our Creator to decide when humanity should be created…and when humanity should cease to exist

Winchester, VA – In this Celestial Musings, the Yellowstone Caldera has been making the news quite a bit recently. The Yellowstone Caldera is a monster volcano, measuring 30 miles by 45 miles– which lies in Yellowstone National Park. It erupts every 600,000-800,000 years and its last known eruption was 640,000 years ago. Scientists say that if this volcano erupts, everything within 60 miles would be incinerated. Surrounding states would be covered in feet of ash. Sunlight would be blotted out, creating a volcanic winter for at least a decade, and the famine would wipe out many millions. NBC News reports that scientists are trying to come up with plans to subvert a possible eruption by drilling holes into the hot rock near the volcano’s magma chamber. Water would be pumped in through the borehole, into the hot rock, and would return to the surface at a temperature of over 600 degrees Fahrenheit. The hot water, they say, can be used to drive turbines to create electric power. Once cooled, the water would be pumped back underground to absorb more heat. This whole scheme sounds so simple, as simple as the plan to crash things into meteors to knock them off course so they don’t hit the earth. And on the one hand while I think, “Yay for modern science! I’d rather not deal with a super-volcano or a meteor hit in the foreseeable future…” I can’t help but also think—that if God wants to press the “smite” button, He sure has several options at His disposal. He can do it, or he can withhold His wrath. He can cool a super-volcano and push an asteroid off course. And He can overcome our attempts at preventing our demise. Then why bother? Should we bother to go to these great lengths to save humanity, or should we place our trust in our Creator to decide when humanity should be created…and when humanity should cease to exist. I suppose ideally, in a perfect world, if we all served God perfectly, and trusted God perfectly, then we would have complete confidence in the wisdom of whatever He allows to happen, but then if that were the case why should we have any scientific advancement at all? Why cure disease? I think it is a good thing that we work to thwart these natural disasters, but I also think that if we are going to seek to preserve humanity, we need to be a humanity worth preserving. A humanity which does not kill its most vulnerable. A humanity which seeks out and perseveres in living Gospel values. A humanity that does the will of the God who created it.

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