The Bible + Google Earth

Cool idea reported on the Creative Review blog from an Australian creative group called The Glue Society. They created four scenes from the Bible as if captured by satellites and viewed on Google Earth. It's not necessarily a Christian group, and a couple of the images are questionable in terms of biblical accuracy, but what an amazing notion.

How exciting would it be to see history from God's vantage point with our own eyes? Of course, God could have done it that way. He could have revealed everything via online video. Seems like it would have saved a lot of arguing. But of course it wouldn't have. As the artists for this project mention, even satellite images won't be trusted for long.

". . . with this piece we felt technology now allows events which may or may not have happened to be visualized and made to appear dramatically real,” say The Glue Society’s James Dive. “As a method of representation satellite photography is so trusted, it has been interesting to mess with that trust.”

Just as we question the words of God, we would all question the "pictures of God," had He e-mailed them to us. The truth is we do have "God's eye view" of history on the pages of the Bible. Gaining wisdom is the practice of making His view our own.

(HT: kottke.org)