As per usual, I received the weekly email from my ME (managing editor) with some ideas to help spark my creativity. Instantly the first idea caught my eye.

Science celebrity Stephen Hawking says we only have 1,000 years left on this earth and the only way humankind can escape mass extinction is to find another planet.

What?

"However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son himself. Only the Father knows." Matthew 24:36

Now don't get me wrong, I'm an avid science lover. I loved biology and zoology in high school. I'm vice-president of our ecology club, and we're trying to make our campus a little cleaner and more beautiful one step at a time. I love astronomy. When I was little, I used to want to be an astronaut. Then I realized that required me leaving the ground, and I'm afraid of heights.

I've heard a lot of talk lately about climate change, and how if we don't change the way we do things we're going to kill the earth. I do believe that we, as humans, have a lot to improve upon when it comes to bettering how we treat the earth. God created the earth, and He created us to take care of it. A plain and simple fact (Gen. 1:1-27). Do I believe in climate change? Ask me some other time.

What really irks me though, about all of this, is when someone says in [insert certain amount of time] the world is going to end. For example when everyone flipped back in 2012 because the Mayan calendar ended, or predicted some weird collision that would supposedly happen. Everyone got so worried and worked up about it. Did you know that "do not be afraid", and other phrases related to it like "fear not", are found in the Bible 365 times? No one knows when the world will really "end" or, what will really happen, when Jesus will come back. So why try to predict and worry about it?

Without science we wouldn't have a lot of things, and I give them credit where it's due. But I believe in the Bible and no man, no matter how smart, knows when the earth will die. If someone claims to know, they are wrong (Matt. 7:15). So no disrespect to Mr. Hawking, but no amount of information gathered from anyone could possibly prove in 1,000 years the earth will die, and we will become extinct. We will live and prosper as long as God ordains it, and when the time comes for Jesus to come back. He will create a "new Heaven and a new earth" (Rev. 21:1). That is the day, I'll be looking forward too.