Clouds
March 7, 2010
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Each Sunday, BioLogos features a worship-oriented blog. Today's post offers reflection on a worship video produced by Highway Video.
"Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?" -Job 37:15-16
Science has shown us that clouds are visible masses of water vapor, which are condensed into either droplets or frozen crystals. Their formation and movement are aided through the circulation of air masses. Indeed, the clouds that seemed so mysterious in the book of Job are no longer a mystery to us.
The same can be said of many other aspects of the natural world. Science can tell us how flowers bloom and how the sun rises and sets each day. Science has even begun to give us insight into the processes that may have brought about life itself - processes that seem to go against the idea of a literalist six day interpretation of Genesis. Does such knowledge mean we cannot look upon these natural wonders and experience the same awe of our Creator, as described in the verses above? Is the beauty of nature diminished simply because we better understand it?
Not at all. Our scientific insight into the way the world works should lead us into a deeper sense of awe and admiration for the author of these processes, not a lessened one. And as we begin to understand the laws that underlie God's creation, even deeper mysteries emerge. Why is the universe so well ordered? Why is there something rather than nothing? Such questions lead us deeper still in our understanding of the Creator.
In addition to His Word, God has given us an innate desire to seek him through nature - the book of God's works. We must remember that both faith and science lead to truth about God the creator.
For more worship videos like the one shown above, be sure to visit Highway Video's website.
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March 12th 2010
Is attributing a composition to a composer unscientific?
Reply to this commentMarch 12th 2010
Ug, can you answer my question? As off topic as your question is to the essay written here I’ll answer it anyway. Attributing a composition to a composer is not unscientific. There must be evidence to confirm someone wrote a piece. Otherwise anyone could claim they wrote it. Feel free to answer my question.
Reply to this commentMarch 12th 2010
Must there be scientific evidence to attribute a composition to a composer, or will textual evidence suffice?
Reply to this commentMarch 15th 2010
I don’t know what you mean by textual evidence? Does this mean someone simply wrote down that a composer wrote a piece? This is scientifically very weak evidence. Someone can write that I am an NFL player, but that conclusion is not supported scientifically. Now it doesn’t mean the composer didn’t write it, it just means if that’s the ONLY “evidence” that supports it, it is not supported scientifically. Also, can you not answer my question? My question was: Do you agree that attributing something scientific to a creator is itself unscientific?
Reply to this commentMarch 15th 2010
“A-scientific” might work, in the sense that the attribution is supported religiously rather than scientifically.
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