Monica Grady is a professor of planetary and space science
and the newest chancellor at Liverpool Hope University in the UK. In other
words, she knows (much) more about planetary science than I do.
She thinks there is most likely life beneath the icy exterior shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
In fact, she calls this possibility “almost a racing
certainty.” While life on Mars is possible, she says, “I think we’ve
got a better chance of having slightly higher forms of life on Europa, perhaps
similar to the intelligence of an octopus.”
There are plans to send a NASA mission called Europa Clipper
to look for life on the frozen moon. And there’s much interest in further
exploration of Mars as well. But Grady thinks life on the latter, if it exists,
is “likely to be very small—bacteria.”
She adds: “I’m fairly certain we’re all there is at our
level of intelligence in this planetary system.”
‘Always remember the source of your personal worth’
A story about aliens (to us, not
to them) with the intelligence of an octopus on a moon that is 390 million
miles from us is more interesting than practical. Here’s a very practical fact
I do know with absolute certainty: God made everything that exists on Europa.
And everything that exists on Earth.
And he made it all for a purpose.
Including you.
Max Lucado offers this reflection in today’s devotional: “We all ask the question, ‘Am I somebody important?’ It’s easy to feel anything but important when your ex takes your energy, or old age takes your dignity. Somebody important? Hardly. But remember this promise of God: you were created by God, in God’s image, for God’s glory.”
Max then quotes Genesis 1:26 and
notes: “God never declared, ‘Let us make oceans in our image,’ or ‘birds
in our likeness.’ The heavens above reflect the glory of God, but they are not
made in the image of God. Yet you are! And because God’s promises…
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