Turning point in a walk of faith

Editor’s note: Whatley shares a perspective on the intersection of science and faith, discussing the discovery of exoplanets and implications for understanding God’s sovereignty and man’s free will, as well as his personal journey towa rds faith.

A little more than 440 years ago, an Italian philosopher named Giordano Bruno suggested that space was filled with “an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.”

In the summer of 1991, a team at the Jodrell Bank Observatory detected a planet in orbit around a pulsar, the dense remains of an exploded star. That planet, lying outside our solar system is called an exoplanet.