SCRIPTURE: Earth-creatures, bow before God; world-dwellers—down on your knees! Here’s why: he spoke and there it was, in place the moment he said so. Psalm 33:8-9 MSG
THOUGHT: It bothers me a great deal that faith, which gave birth to science in the Middle Ages, is so often dismissed by those who trust that science holds the ultimate answers. If one bit of science is mis-proven, another will develop to replace it with an almost dogmatic insistence that faith or mystery have no place in the modern mind.
Early ‘scientists’ weren’t interested in studying the natural world for its own sake, they saw it as a way to become better theologians. In 1277, the bishop of Paris stated by decree that because God could do as he pleased, he could do things that philosophers said were impossible – like creating a vacuum or more than one universe. This opened up a world of possibility that Christian natural philosophers eagerly explored, leading to the theory of relative motion and the theory of conservation of momentum, later perfected by Sir Isaac Newton, a man who once said, “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.”
It all just leaves me wondering what is so terribly wrong about leaving room for mystery – what drives the souls of those who would claim faith as delusional? Is it the thought that they must bow their intellect and accomplishments before one who cannot be studied adequately by scientific inquiry? That they must finally, ultimately worship the one they seek to dismiss?
SONG: Marvelous Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkLadDIpCGE
PRAYER: Triune God, I cannot help but think that this is your greatest sorrow: those you created and gifted with such intelligence using it to thwart and dispossess you of honor and influencing others to do the same. Help us who call you Creator God to continue to be amazed by the capacities you’ve given us to look into mystery without disavowing your presence and power – to worship you even beyond science into mystery.
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