{"id":36367,"date":"2022-08-25T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/only-earth-has-rainbows\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:04:00","slug":"only-earth-has-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/only-earth-has-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Earth Has Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life on Earth requires a lot of &ldquo;fine tuning.&rdquo; Our planet is just the right distance from the Sun to allow freezing and melting, and the planetary axis tilted just so for seasons. There is a moon for tides to circulate and cleanse shores and oceans, an atmosphere to distribute heat (otherwise the sun-side would cook as the night-side froze), and a magnetic field that contributes to our protection from harmful solar radiation.<\/p>\n\n<p>That all these needs were met (and many more) is all a big (coincidence) for evolutionists &ndash; we just lucked out and got just what we needed.<\/p>\n\n<p>But we didn&rsquo;t need rainbows. And yet, as astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez recently noted, we&rsquo;re on the only planet in the Solar System to get them. What&rsquo;s needed for a rainbow is:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Suspended water droplets in the atmosphere and the direct sunlight that results from the sun being between the horizon and 42 degrees altitude. This typically occurs just after a thunderstorm has passed and small droplets are still in the atmosphere, and the sky is clearing in front of the sun. Seems like a simple setup. This must be a common phenomenon in the cosmos, right?<\/p>\n<p>\n\n<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>But it isn&rsquo;t so simple. Our moon doesn&rsquo;t have the atmosphere. Mars doesn&rsquo;t have the moisture. Venus has too thick an atmosphere and as we head further out, the other planets don&rsquo;t have liquid water. So, the only planet to have rainbows is the only one with people on it to see them. To evolutionists that&rsquo;s just one more (coincidence). To God&rsquo;s people, just another example of his love and care. It&rsquo;s as if someone has been trying to get our attention with a pretty shiny object writ large across the sky, saying, &ldquo;Look here. &#8230; This is important!&rdquo; &ldquo;I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth&rdquo; (Gen. 9:13).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[411],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[433],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3424,3705,3706,3711,3713,3902,3910,4526,4722,4723,4724,4891,5290],"tax_ctp_topics":[397],"class_list":["post-36367","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-apologetics","tax_ctp_tags-covenant","tax_ctp_tags-covenants-of-god","tax_ctp_tags-creation","tax_ctp_tags-creator","tax_ctp_tags-evidence-of-god","tax_ctp_tags-excellencies-of-god","tax_ctp_tags-nature","tax_ctp_tags-promise","tax_ctp_tags-promises","tax_ctp_tags-promises-of-god","tax_ctp_tags-science","tax_ctp_tags-wonder"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Only Earth Has Rainbows - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/only-earth-has-rainbows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Only Earth Has Rainbows - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Life on Earth requires a lot of &ldquo;fine tuning.&rdquo; Our planet is just the right distance from the Sun to allow freezing and melting, and the planetary axis tilted just so for seasons. 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