A SMALL BORING WORLD

This past week we learned that the population of the United States has reached the 3oo Million mark. The population of the World is somewhere over 6.5 billion. We live in THE most technologically advanced time in human history. We have electron microscopes that can see things that are almost down to the elemental levels. We have telescopes that can see further in to the universe than ever. We have mapped the entire planet, even stepped on the moon. The age of exploration and wonder must be dead. We have been there/seen that!
WRONG!
There are still wonderful things out there left to find! We have not seen it all!
With all of our technology and advancements we have only recently taken a picture of a LIVE giant squid. We have known for decades that they existed. They have been the thing of myth for centuries. We know that they existed because we have found dead ones in fishing nets and washing up on the shore. But they seemed to just appear at times to mock us. For all of our science, we could never document a live specimen. When I say giant, I mean it! These things are massive and one would think not easy to miss. There were men that sought these creatures with an Ahab type of intensity only to come up empty handed.
Finally after many tries a team that was studying whales South of Japan captured the first pictures of a Live Giant Squid.
This is not the only story. Recently a man canoeing through an Arkansas wilderness area saw a bird that the experts thought had been extinct for decades. This bird is called the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, or the Lord God Bird. It is the largest member of the woodpecker family. These things are HUGE! There huge and we thought they were extinct! But then all of a sudden here on pops up. There are now teams that are researching and still LOOKING for the bird.
I tell you this to say. There is still wonder out there! Still things that can make us go WOW! My father was a National Geographic subscriber for years. One of my favortite things about the monthly magazine were the new species that were added seemingly every month. Here in 2006 we are STILL adding species to the list of known animals. AMAZING!
The LORD's Creation is not boring. He will continually amaze and humble us with it. We are stewards of a planet we still know so little about.