Chapter III
Logan’s dull glow
I have always been fascinated by the concept the people of God acting as luminaries in the world. In the Old Testament the angel Gabriel tells Daniel in chapter 12 (of Daniel) that when the Resurrection occurs, “Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.” In the New Testament, Jesus says, “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.” (Matthew 5:4 NIV). Later, the Apostle Paul would write the Philippians about how they “shine like stars in universe as they hold out (or hold onto) the Word of Life.”
What If…
Then I thought of the idea we hear from science that much of our brain goes unused. What if in the most early days of our Earth the very first people had greater access to more parts of their brain? What if the earliest humans were not neanderthals, but far more advanced than anything we could conceive of? What if humans had access to more senses that allowed them to see naturally the more spiritual aspects of the world? What if because of the introduction of sin into the world, humans began to lose some this capacity? We see from Genesis that the age span of humans began to drop at an alarming rate just after the flood. What if other things, like access to different parts of the human brain changed as well, but even before the flood?
Our atheist, materialist, humanist friends like to point to the fossil record as a means of showing, however imperfectly, that humans have evolved from lower primates. However, they are making an assumption that there is a constancy to Earth’s past which would allow us to even view fossils as a “record.” But what would happen to our conception of the distant past if there really was a cataclysmic planet-wide event that fundamentally changed our planet?
These are the thoughts hidden behind the story.