Good Scientific Discoveries Depend Upon Finding What the Creator Put there to be Discovered. (Why every Christian Should Be a Naturalist, #5)
Imagine living in a universe with no fixed laws of motion or attraction or chemistry? One day gravity might be less and we might jump up from a chair but hit the ceiling. The next day it might be so strong we would have to crawl to work. Rockets to the moon might miss it and wander into space. Water might not evaporate from our lakes and oceans, there would be no rain, and oceans would overwhelm the land.
We take the consistency, the order, and the dependability of physical laws for granted. So do scientists even though many in our day deny the Creator of natural law. What chutzpah to deny the source of the very laws they study and attribute them to blind evolution or an uncaused big bang! The scientific method itself originated in a God-centred era that spawned the early scientists who revered God. They were men like Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, father of modern astronomy, Robert Boyle, father of modern chemistry, and Isaac Newton.
The heavenly bodies still operate according to principles discovered by Copernicus and Kepler. The elements still interact according to chemical principles in operation during Boyle’s time. The principles of electricity have not changed in a thousand years, although our understanding has. Nor have the basic interactions of the systems in our bodies. In actuality, good scientists are explorers who discover what is already there.
Every good scientific discovery we have, came through the study of the consistency and order of the universe. Our universe is not a random, chaotic swamp of competing and unpredictable forces. We should honour scientists for their discoveries, but refuse to let them steal the Creator’s glory. Actually, they are often wrong. Witness the competing claims of so-called experts during the current Covid-19 crisis.
Every Christian should be a STUDENT OF CREATION BECAUSE THE SON OF GOD IS THE CREATOR OF NATURAL LAW. He is the one responsible for the consistency and order upon which all good science depends. Why were scientists able to discover DNA? Because the Designer created us with imbedded DNA.
John reminds us of Christ, “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made” (John 1:3). “In him all things hold together” (Col. 1:17). The Psalmist states, “I will meditate on all your work, and talk of your deeds” (Psalm 77:12). “I will muse on the work of Thy hands” (Ps. 143:5) “Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them” (Psalm 111:2). “In wisdom you made them all” (Psalm 104:24). Belief in a Creator, far from discouraging science inspires thought and research into the almost infinite mysteries of existence. Consistent scientists, such as Newton, loved nature and studied it because they saw it as the handiwork of God. George Washington Carver, inventor of scores of uses for the peanut, pursued his discovery out of reverence for God.
So, as we wander through God’s forests, sail over His seas and gaze into his sky, we should wonder at the glory of it all and ponder what mysteries yet wait to be discovered. God created us in His own image; part of that image is rational thought including CREATIVITY and IMAGINATION. We need an abundance of Christians who will take up the study of creation and rescue it from the hands of atheistic science for the good of mankind.
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