“Human life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing ‘fireworks’ on film. An explosion of tiny sparks erupts from the egg at the exact moment of conception.” Think about this for a moment. At the moment that you, I and everyone else who has ever lived were conceived, the microscopic equivalent of “fireworks” went off. A kind of mini “Big Bang.”

When we encounter something beautiful and wondrous, the proper response should be awe and gratitude. Not marketing and maximizing profits.

God’s active act of creation, as described in Genesis 1, begins with those familiar words “Let there be light,” or, as my Latin-loving colleagues prefer, “fiat lux.”

Throughout the Scriptures, God’s presence and power is associated with light. This is most obviously true in all of the writings the Apostle John. In fact, as 1 John tells us, “God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all.”

But this is more than history and metaphor. As it turns out, it’s observable in the microscopic realm as well.

The lead to a recent article in the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper sums up a remarkable discovery by researchers at Northwestern University near Chicago: “Human life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing ‘fireworks’ on film. An explosion of tiny sparks erupts from the egg at the exact moment of conception.”

Think about this for a moment. At the moment that you, I and everyone else who has ever lived were conceived, the microscopic equivalent of “fireworks” went off. A kind of mini “Big Bang.”

As Simcha Fisher wrote at Aleteia, when she saw the headline, her response was, “It’s almost . . . as if something amazing is going on! Something that shouldn’t be messed with!”

Unfortunately, that’s not how the people behind this discovery responded. After seeing nature’s “fireworks” their minds turned to how they could use what they saw to control and manipulate nature.

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