Set Apart

In this article, one young man steps outside of genetics to explore his extreme giftedness and uniqueness. With an IQ of 180, exceeding the estimated IQ of Einstein himself, 12-year-old Jacob Barnett is already taking on Einstein's theories of quantum physics. Interestingly enough, not only was this sort of endeavor unforeseen by his parents, but also by his doctors as he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the glimmering age of 3. This story portrays to me the beauty possessed in the mind of innocence. At age 3, a child has no cracked-foundation for the term Asbergers or disability. They simply do what they were made to do- explore. I feel that young Jacob did just that, he did not allow the foreign words diagnosed by the doctor affect him, he simply just did only what he knew. He lived within the means given to him without the stifling false assumptions of the world to limit him. And explore he did, into not just undiscovered land for a toddler, but for some of the most learned and accomplished astrophysics. Biblically speaking, we are the Children of God made in His Image. I simply do not see anything more unlimited than that very identity. He declares that because of this creation, we have been Set Apart, not confined to the fallen nature of the World, but that from us, Greater things have yet to come. Now, some may want to call this boy a scientific wonder, but I think we meagerly wonder because we cannot wrap our science around this identity. It is not of this world.