In 2019 I started writing “Flag on the Glacier,” a book-sized letter to atheists a thousand years in the future. One of my goals was to get the book published before the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The reason for that was simple, I had a feeling that the data coming back from the telescope was going to confirm what I would write about. Writing about the future is challenging, and I really wanted to try to be accurate, but in the case of what I was to say about space, and its implications about God, I was certain.

When COVID hit the world in early 2020, we were just months away from the (at that time) launch date of the new space telescope in May. But my book was nowhere near complete. However, due to both COVID complications, and technical issues, the eventual launch ended up being Christmas Day, 2021. I consider that the launch, on that day, represents what the telescope is… a “Christmas gift” to the world.

It took about six months for it to travel to its point in space (lagrange point 2) and to be provisioned, and since then we have started to see some oof the most remarkable images released. To see some of those, go to https://webb.nasa.gov/

My thesis is that as time progresses we will come to a point where everyone will believe the world was created, and that somoe intelligent form (ie God) is behind it all. Even future atheists will concede this point. I postulated that the JWST would demonstrate that the universe is infinite, becuase it shows us what God is like. So now that articles like the below one, are surfacing, it is nothing suprising to me, but a great confirmation oof what I knew to be true. Click the image below to read the full article at Sky & Telescope.