"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork."
The world and its
history was created to glorify God, that is its purpose. Yet the objects in
this world are incapable of worshiping God, many of them are lifeless and all
are mindless. Being created in God's image we have the unique ability in all
creation to glorify him. Without mankind this universe would have no meaning,
serve no purpose and so God would not have created it. God created the entire
universe just for us. To inspire us to glorify him. The Psalmist response to
the beauty of the stars was to glorify God. But he didn’t know the beauty that
they truly held. As we continue to delve deeper into the mysteries of the
universe we find far more reasons to praise the creator. Science has also shown
us the complexity and the incredible level of design even in objects that
appear mundane. We literally live in the most intricate thing we have found in
the universe, there is nothing more complex than the human brain.
We cannot escape
God's handiwork and thus we have no excuse not to glorify him. Science also
discovers the amazing things that God has laid hidden until now. In a sense we
are still completing Adam's job of naming all the things in the universe. Those
objects like bacteria, black holes and deep sea colonies were previously
unknown to mankind so they just lay
there in the universe without fulfilling its purpose. In a sense when we make a
scientific discovery it is like completing God's act of creation. Not in the
sense that the object didn't exist before we found it. It has always existed
physically but rather we add to it purpose and meaning so that it is now able
to inspire man to praise the Lord. Science is the art of searching creation for
more reasons to praise God.
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