A comet in the night sky is an awe-inspiring sight (Figure 1). People throughout history have sometimes seen comets as portents of doom. However, God warned the people of Israel not to fear such signs in the heavens:

This summer, the Hubble Space Telescope took a brilliant new photograph of Saturn and its rings.¹ Saturn’s moons Mimas and Enceladus can also be seen in the photo. For a number of years now, the Hubble Space Telescope has been taking yearly photographs of Saturn at about the time that Earth is closest to the planet, about 840 million miles away.

Using computer simulations, a team of researchers has concluded the planet Venus could still be geologically active.^1,2 The scientists used computers to simulate the formation of coronae—ring-shaped, volcanic structures on the planet’s surface.

Both amateur and professional stargazers have an opportunity to see a little more of God’s glory revealed in the heavens¹ next week. The Perseid meteor shower is probably the best of all the annual meteor showers, and it is scheduled to put on a “peak performance” in the early morning hours of Monday through Wednesday, August 12-13.²

Is evidence for creation ambiguous? Could an honest seeker of truth reasonably conclude there is no God? Is the evolutionary old-earth story a reasonable inference from the scientific data?