This year marks the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo moon missions. NASA has created a section of their website dedicated to the memory of these missions. There is no better opportunity than now to bring to the world’s remembrance the contribution that creationists made in these missions.

In fact, the head of the entire space program was Wernher Von Braun who was a dedicated creationist. Consider the following:

“...after the Apollo 11 success, for instance, a reporter asked him what he was thinking when he gave the final ‘yes’ for launch. The reporter must have been surprised at his unabashed answer, ‘I quietly said the Lord’s prayer.’”

Much more could be said about Von Braun’s dedication to creation. Consider just this last quote from the Creation Safaris website:

In regards to creation vs. evolution, von Braun opposed the one-sided teaching of Darwinian evolution in the public schools. In 1972, he wrote a letter to the California School Board, which was considering a controversial bill on the teaching of evolution. He used his influence as a scientist and well-known public figure to argue that students need to hear the case for creation:

To be forced to believe only one conclusion—that everything in the universe happened by chance-would violate the very objectivity of science itself. Certainly there are those who argue that the universe evolved out of a random process, but what random process could produce the brain of a man or the system of the human eye? Some people say that science has been unable to prove the existence of a Designer... They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But, must we really light a candle to see the sun?

The NASA website celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing is here.

However, a better place to begin would be to check out this page on our website. It has several recordings of the Apollo astronauts quoting the Bible. This is a part of NASA’s history that many today would like to erase from our memory.

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