God Speaks Through Creation
What does it mean that God “speaks” through creation?
The Navigators
God speaking through creation or the natural world means
that when we look up at the stars or gaze at a California hill covered with wildflowers, we see the fingerprints of God.
The more we fix our eyes on the wonder of creation, the
more we must conclude that these things could not make themselves.
Both the intricate design of creation and the way the
universe appears to be fine-tuned for life declare that this could not happen
by chance.
Consider the following: If the electromagnetic force in
atoms were weakened by a mere 4 percent, then the sun would immediately explode
(the diproton would have a bound state, which would increase the solar
luminosity by a factor 1018).
If it were stronger, there would be fewer stable atoms.
If the protons were 0.2 percent heavier, they would decay into neutrons unable
to hold on to electrons, so there would be no stable atoms around.
If the proton-to-electron mass ratio were much smaller,
there
From something as mundane as a group of bright red
cardinals sitting in a leaf-bare bush on a snowy Midwestern day, to the
spectacular views of nebulae in distant corners of the galaxy beamed to earth
by the Hubble Space Telescope creation does not just tell us that a Creator
exists, but that this Creator is an artist without peer.
The feelings of awe that come over us as we watch the
waves pound against the rocks at the beach or hold a newborn baby for the first
time are in fact God speaking to us through his masterpiece.
Psalm 19:1-4 puts it this way:
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.” (New International Version)
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.” (New International Version)
While the order and beauty of the
universe appear to be rock-solid proofs of God’s existence to believers,
unbelievers find many ways to explain them away.
Physicist Max Tegmark writes extensively on the way our
universe is fine-tuned for life, yet he does not see this fine-tuning as
evidence of a Creator.
Rather, he sees it as further proof of the existence of
parallel universes where such fine-tuning does not exist and life is not
possible.
For him, the fact that we find ourselves in a universe
teeming with life is no more of a miracle than checking into a hotel and being
given a room with the same number as the year of your birth.
Room 1985 exists because all the other rooms exist. In
the same way, Tegmark believes an infinite number of universes exist where
every possible combination of physical laws rule.
Some have life while others cannot. Other scientists
regard what we call beauty as nothing more than the end result of natural
selection playing out over eons of time.
Bright red cardinals sit in bushes on snowy days because
red feathers made the males of the species more attractive to the females.
That is why this trait became dominant in cardinals — no
further reason.
For those who see the hand of natural selection in the
world rather than the fingerprints of God, beauty is purely in the eyes of the
beholder.
Believers may hear God’s revelation of Himself through
nature, but clearly, not everyone is listening.
Article excerpted from Theology: Think for Yourself What You Believe by The
Navigators.
http://www.christianity.com/theology/what-does-it-mean-that-god-speaks-through-creation-11543269.html
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