Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny—Two Messages from Space

As for the atheists’ claim that no intelligent, educated person any longer believes in God, one must admit that astronauts are certainly required to be intelligent, as well as to be scientists. During the first-ever manned orbiting of the moon, William Anders announced, “For all the people on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message we would like to send you . . . ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. . . .’” Anders, followed by Jim Lovell and Frank Borman, broadcast back to earth the first ten verses of Genesis (though Anders inadvertently skipped verse 3). After their return to Earth, a reporter asked Borman whether he had seen God out there. He replied, “No . . . but I saw His evidence.”