Fun fact of the day
The monk, Gregor Mendel, more or less created the study of genetics (via pea plants and honey bees) back in 1856, but his work went mostly undiscovered/ignored by the scientic community, until about 16 years after his death in 1884. Since then, he's been considered the founding father of genetics by the scientic community as everyone who's ever had to draw a punnett square in Biology knows. (Wrinkled vs. smooth peas, we get it already!)
However, that's not the awesome part. The awesome part, is that sometime before he died, he told a scientic colleague, "My time will come." He knew that he had discovered something, so wicked awesome, that it would explode the scientic community.
Now, we were discussing this in Biology today, and my professor (who is most likely not a Christian, although far be it from me to judge) make some sort of comment about how arrogant a comment that was and "I wonder how many Hail Marys he had to say after that."
I, on the other hand, thought it was less arrogant and more just a statement of fact, like God had revealed to him, "You're going to make an impact on the world. Don't worry about it." How cool would that be? To just know/have it revealed to you that even if your discovery/truth/knowledge/whatever is overlooked now, that it will mean something in the end.
I thought it was a really cool example of how God takes care of you, even after you're dead. :)
However, that's not the awesome part. The awesome part, is that sometime before he died, he told a scientic colleague, "My time will come." He knew that he had discovered something, so wicked awesome, that it would explode the scientic community.
Now, we were discussing this in Biology today, and my professor (who is most likely not a Christian, although far be it from me to judge) make some sort of comment about how arrogant a comment that was and "I wonder how many Hail Marys he had to say after that."
I, on the other hand, thought it was less arrogant and more just a statement of fact, like God had revealed to him, "You're going to make an impact on the world. Don't worry about it." How cool would that be? To just know/have it revealed to you that even if your discovery/truth/knowledge/whatever is overlooked now, that it will mean something in the end.
I thought it was a really cool example of how God takes care of you, even after you're dead. :)