Understanding the World through God

Psalm 119:130 declares, "The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple." Yet how do most people understand the world around them? Often it is science that informs them about the world. Through careful observation, they strive to understand the world around them in new and incredible ways. They look above the stars and galaxies beyond and even interactions between particles that are too small for the naked eye to see.

Science is limited by the paradigm of the researchers and their own personal beliefs. Science is supposed to be objective, emotionless, and based upon cold hard facts; however, it is based on pre-established laws and theories. For better or worse, science is bounded by what we think we already know. As useful as science may be, it is not what we have our hope in.

J.C Philpot writes, 'It seems as if we needed day by day to be taught over and over again our own sinfulness, weakness, and helplessness, and that none but the blessed Lord can do us any real good. Religion is not like any art or science which, when once learned, is learned forever; but is a thing which we are ever forgetting, and ever learning over and over again."

Science would have us believe that we can find all the answers to life if we look and search hard enough. Science, in fact, is looking to find this very thing: one theory which explains everything in the universe. Without acknowledging God, this feat will never be accomplished. As rational as science is, it refuses to accept that nothing  can come into being or hold itself together in existence without God.

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