NARRATOR: Louie Giglio is the pastor of Passion City

Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

He's also the founder of Passion Conferences, where

college kids from around the world

meet for more than just music.

This year, 50,000 young people from 90 countries and all 50

states packed the Georgia Dome for Passion 2017

to pray for a spiritual awakening for this generation.

Louie uses his gift to connect people

with the message of the Gospel.

Now Louie is growing his platform

to reach younger kids with his first-ever children's book,

"Indescribable," a devotion for kids about God and science.

With us now is Louie Giglio.

Louie, welcome back to "The 700 Club."

So good to see you again.

Great to see you again.

Why is it so important to introduce children

to the aspects of Creation?

You know, I think one of the things that's sad to me

is there's sometimes a divide between faith and science.

It's like you have to pick one or the other.

So, do you believe in God and all the miracles and faith,

or do you believe in science and things

that you can measure and actually are tangible?

And there shouldn't be a big divide

between science and faith, because if God

did in fact create the universe, that

would make God the greatest scientist of all the scientists

that have ever been.

That's right.

And I want to help kids see that God is not

opposed to science--

He actually is a scientist.

And everything He's made, He's made for His glory.

And so we discover who He is by discovering

what it is that He's made.

All right, well, this book called, "Indescribable--

100 Devotions about God and Science."

It explores four major scientific topics.

Tell us about those.

Yeah, well, I think the big ideas in the book

are that you look at the Creation He's

made in the galaxies, stars, and so we try to cover that.

Animals, and different kinds of things we see from animals,

like the fact that butterflies smell with their feet.

Who knew, right?

[LAUGHS]

I didn't know that.

Wow.

And so, when you see a butterfly walking

on your toast, it's only because he's trying

to smell the jam on your bread.

Yeah, that happens a lot, actually.

And we look at the human body.

There's so many great things about our human body.

You know, when a little embryo is in the womb,

so many miracles are happening every day.

And about the fifth month in the womb, a baby's eyes are formed.

But then miraculously-- even science

doesn't know how to describe some of these moments--

at the sixth month in the womb, there's

one piece of skin over a child's eye

that somehow at the six-month mark,

miraculously, as if it were the hand of God,

an incision is made and two eyelids are formed.

And science can tell you that that happens,

but it can't tell you exactly how it happens.

Or why it happens then.

It's just a part of the process.

And I think we step back and we say, wow.

And the details of the universe, the stars, the galaxies,

every animal that God has made, and our human bodies--

there's so much mystery, and it's all for His glory.

The psalmist said, Psalm 19, the heavens

are telling the glory of God.

Their expanse declares the work of His hands.

Have you ever looked at a night sky and cried?

I have.

I mean, it's so overwhelming sometimes

when you're in a place where you can actually see the stars.

And you have a devotion in here about stars.

And what can the stars teach us about God?

I know for me, I just get overwhelmed with the beauty.

Well, they teach us that He's big, you know.

I mean, we sing a little song when we're little,

called "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," how

I wonder what you are.

Well, it turns out they are not so little after all.

And we try to help kids see that in the book

by some tangible ways.

For example, we tell them that if the Earth were

the size of a golf ball, the sun would be 15 feet in diameter.

So just imagine that.

Here's the Earth.

That means the sun's 15 feet diameter.

A million Earths would fit inside the sun.

And that's just one of the ordinary stars in the Milky Way

galaxy, which has 200 billion stars--

in the Milky Way galaxy.

Some of the stars, if the Earth were a golf ball,

wouldn't be 15 feet diameter.

There are stars that would be as high as eight Empire State

buildings on top of each other.

And there is the Earth down there, the golf ball.

So even I did a message around that, called, "How Great is

our God?" a few years ago.

And some days in New York, no kidding, families

will come on vacation and the kids will come and bring

their golf ball, set it at the base of the Empire State

Building, look up and imagine another one

and another one and another one, and that's a star

that God made.

And the psalmist said He breathes out these stars.

So if that's what He made, then how

great must God be that He just breathes out

these fiery infernos for His glory?

And He just dots the universe with them.

And the Scripture says in Isaiah,

he calls every single one of them by name.

Hundreds of billions of galaxies, hundreds of billions

of stars, He knows every name.

That must mean He knows your name, and He knows mine.

That's one of my favorite scriptures.

I love that, because it does, it reminds you

that He must know our name, too.

Well, how do you handle topics such as Creation

versus evolution?

Well, we're really not trying to dive down into that

in this book, necessarily.

We're respecting science, and that's one of the things

that I want to do.

And so, I have friends who are astronauts.

I have a friend who just came back from the International

Space Station.

He was the commander for six months in space.

So this guy is very bright and very smart.

So he was floating for six months.

He was living in space, orbiting the Earth

at 17,000 miles an hour--

You've got some interesting friends, Louie.

--for six months.

The most amazing thing was that he would call me.

And that's not the subject of this book,

but the phone would ring and it would come up,

"Shane in space."

And I'd be, hello.

Hey, Louie.

And I'd be like, this is crazy.

I can't even get good reception in Atlanta, Georgia.

But Shane is a scientist.

He's an astronaut.

He's very bright.

And so he tells me that a light year is this long

and that a galaxy is this many light years away,

a star maybe we found 13 billion light years away.

I'm not going to get into some Creation-evolution debate.

I'm going to go, this is science,

and this is how they measure the world.

WENDY GRIFFITH: Sure.

But I believe God created the world.

He created it in six days.

He created it in His timing.

He made everything that exists for His glory.

And I'm not smart enough to solve

all the intricacies of that.

I just want to live in the middle of it

and not fear science.

And I want to teach people not to be afraid of what scientists

say, because at the end of the day,

God is the greatest scientist, and at the end of the day,

it's all going to end up being His story.

And that's why you call it "Indescribable,"

because it truly is, although you did a very good job

and I learned so much.

I feel like I just went back to school.

Well, if you're looking for a perfect gift for your child

or grandchild, you need to get this.

"Indescribable-- 100 Devotions About God and Science."

And it's available nationwide.

And I'm going to remember that, about the butterflies walking

on my toast.

They're smelling my toast, right?

It's amazing.

All right, well, thanks so much and God bless you.

LOUIE GIGLIO: Thank you so much.

Thanks for doing this.

Thanks for having us.

And we'll be back with more of "The 700 Club" right

after this.