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By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible (Hebrews 11:3, ESV).
I’m grateful for science. The technology from science enables my thoughts to be transferred to a keyboard, to other bits of hardware, to computer programs, and, six days a week, to Interruptions arriving in your inbox.
A perfect use for science — this blog!
Undergirding all the branches of science, from biology to psychology, at least according to physicists, lies the discipline of physics. But being self-important and often self-aggrandizing, what else would we expect them to say?
But I’ve concluded (as a lowly preacher) that the physicists claiming undergirding rights to functionality of the universe are mostly right, but hugely incorrect about one thing. Let me explain by using an apple, a bicycle, and my brain to prove my point.
An Apple
The legend of Isaac Newton sleeping under an apple tree with an apple falling on his head, inspiring him to formulate the first theories of gravity, is almost true, as he observed apples falling from trees, wondering why they fell in a perpendicular line toward the center of the earth, and didn’t fly off to the right or the left.
From this straight line of apples falling, we now have principles of geometry and architectural engineering that allow bridges and buildings to be built with the necessary structure to keep them from collapsing toward the center of the earth.
The next time you go to the top of the Empire State building, say a prayer of thanksgiving for Sir Isaac.
A Bicycle
Albert Einstein, at the age of sixteen, imagined what a beam of light would look like if he could ride a bicycle fast enough to catch it.
Einstein’s thinking about relativity, arising from this imaginary bicycle ride, led him to consider gravity bending light, causing minute changes in time, enabling the accuracy of inventions such as GPS Satellites.
Note that the voice giving us directions from Google Maps® when driving would constantly be wrong without Einstein, and instead of mapping programs, we would be stuck on family road trips with Dads yelling, “It’s this way because I say it’s this way!”
Pastor Grant’s Brain
While Newton’s and Einstein’s Laws of Physics explain most things, physics works with inert systems and doesn’t account for the vicissitudes of living organisms. Apples are apples and bicycles are bicycles, and they will always be apples and bicycles, but the atoms in Pastor Grant’s brain that I’m using to write this blog will be replaced in a few years, and yet it’s still me.
Whether that’s good or bad (me still being me), Newton and Einstein, while giving an explanation to the actual particles, quarks, and bits of energy, along with time and gravity’s influence, don’t account for the re-creating complexity of living organisms.
My brain is a mystery, and yours too.
I think there is an explanation for absolutely everything, and the physicists who keep using the worn-out concept of “evolution” might be good at solving elementary problems and defining some aspects of life, but they are not even close to the most scientific statement ever written…
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1).
And let’s add…
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God” (Psalm 14:1a).