Dust - Proverbs 8:26

"While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, nor the first dust of the world." 
​Proverbs 8:26

Wisdom was also there before God made the earth, the fields, or the very first dust of our world.  Here again the Lord reveals not just His wisdom, but also the truths that He created this world because of the facts that He lays down for us.  This has to do not just with the mighty mountains and their formation, but also of the manifestation of something as simple and unnoticed as dust.

If God made the world that we see and all that is in it by the Word of His power - by simply speaking it into existence - the earth would be relatively young.  It would not have taken billions of years for all this to come together - it would have taken less than 10,000 years.  And if God had created this world by His wisdom, which He made and manifested before He created all this - then the world around us would reflect that wisdom and understanding in what we find on this earth.  Thus, we turn to the issue of dust.

Dust comes from many sources - from erosion due to wind and also due to volcanic eruptions on the earth.  Some of our dust even comes from the solar system and its doings - and we are told some is even from comets, meteorites and space dust.  Altogether, scientists have measured the dust that we experience and have come up with a figure around 43 million tons of dust that fall on the United States alone.  This measures our to about 40 lbs. of dust per home.  The problem that this causes for us is that we don't have enough dust on the earth to account for billions of years.  If the first dust of the earth came during creation only several thousand years ago - then we are right on target for dust accumulation.  

Scientists argued that other factors in our atmosphere and planetary history could account for our horrific lack of dust.  But when we went to the moon, we went to a place where these factors would not be present.  Thus as moon exploration was planned, one of the things that they were deeply concerned about was the depth of space dust that our astronauts would experience upon landing - and in navigating the moon.  Concerns of literally feet of dust into which our lunar vehicle would sink were considered.  When we landed though we found an embarrassing lack of dust once again.  Actually, we who believe in a young earth creation were not embarrassed at all - because dust levels were consistent with a universe that is vastly younger than the billions of years concocted by the evolutionists.  The dust levels testified of a world created by God only thousands of years ago - which His wisdom testified to in Proverbs to us quite plainly.  

It truly is a wonder to see the wisdom of God borne out again and again in what God has made - so that the world around us is without excuse in their rejection of God and of His truth in the Bible.  It is almost as amazing as the efforts to which fallen man will go in trying to reject that same wonderful wisdom by thinking up ridiculous theories that will allow man to continue in his rebellion and lack of acknowledgement of God.