The Forest and the Trees of Science

I thought about science today as I was reading Job 38. Oh, how many want to give the short immediate answer to a question. They then think they understand things. This answer is never fully right. Science wants to answer who God is. Yet, it does so at is own peril. Its strength becomes its weakness. Let me explain something by science. You reading this very blog. You would say that this is because you are on your computer... Oh how slight that answer is.

Once upon a time sun radiated light (black body radiation) because of heated incandesent gasses from a nuclear reaction. This energy travels to earth and then is captured on a chlorophyll array in a plant's chloroplast. Two photons of energy hit this array and release electrons. The electrons jump over a bridge and are collected at the center of the array. The electrons reacts with a molecule of water. The water is split into hydrogen and oxygen. These atoms are separated across a barrier of phosopholipid molecules. The hydrogen (acidic) gradient is then used create ATP in the chloroplast. This ATP molecule gives energy to another molecule NADH? that reduces CO2 from the air. The CO2 molecule then enters the Calvin-Benson cycle. It is attached to PGAL (6 step process?) and converted into a sugar. This sugar is next polymerized by catalysts into starch or into cellulose. These molecules reside in the plant. The plant is then consumered or it dies and goes into the acidic soil. The remains undergo chemical changes but c-c bonds remain after all is through. The plant remains are turn into coal by pressure, heat, and time. The coal is then harvested from the earth and carried long distances to a power plant. The coal is burnt and Heat is given off. This heat energy is turned into pressure as a phase change liquid to gas occurs. (Steam generation.) The resultant pressure supplies force to turn a turbine mechanically. The kinetic energy of the turbine moves wires through a magnetic field. The magnetic field slows down the turbine as the mechanical energy induces an electric voltage. This current then travels along high voltage wires away from the power plant. It reaches a step down transformer that consist of two coils of wires in which another magnetic field is created and used to induce an electric voltage from one set of coils to the other. Energy is practically transmitted through thin air again! This happens once or twice to reduce the voltage so that it can be used by us. The energy then travels to an outlet in which your computer is plugged in. The computer power supply converts the AC sinusodal current to the DC linear current. The power then travels through a bunch of specially designed sets of logic gates that consist of special material properties (pn junctions of semiconductors etc). The result is that they act as chips that return answers of yes or no based on the logic of and/or. These logic operators use on and off signals consisting of this power. These signals are interpreted twice. Once into characters. Again into a language with defined functions. The computer then displays the result on your screen. You computer also gathers other signals transmitted over another set of wires powered in a similar fashion. It then displays this blog.

No one would have normally thought that this blog is powered by the very force that holds together the atom. The very forces that are imprinted onto the fabric of space-time. The power behind the logic of this science is inescapable. It is inescapably complex. It is so with seeking God by nature.

I was trying so very hard at seeking God in nature to see to what degree it was possible but to no avail. I was trying to find him with logic. I perhaps got as far back as the very fabric of space. I could not find God by wisdom of this world. No matter how hard I tried there was too much noise. I found there to be a vicious cycle of knowledge without knowledge. Wisdom without Wisdom. Oh, the foolishness of science that tries to know a simple thing does not see it is really far from simple. The ground of the complete answer is much more difficult than the cause to establish. Yet, it is equally valid as a cause.

God is almost too great for us to see. We are busy looking at things too small for Him. God is behind the smokescreen of all material things that exist and are. He is the thing that causes them to exist as they are. He spoke and they came into being. That is his power. I consider the millions of physics calculations that happen within the span of a second. What computer could calculate such. What could contain these laws and calculations without it being supported by something/someone with omniscience. God is wholy seperate here. This is part of His eternal power and attributes displayed in creation which are undeniable. It is through Him and by Him that all things were created. John 1. It is through him that they also exist for his glory.

Now, God needs to reveal himself and bring to nothing this wisdom of man. He is the world's source of wisdom. Imperfect after the fall. It cannot stand complete without Him. God need not ask us like Job to answer Him. I fear that we will not give Him the right answer if He did. What is worse is that we think we have that answer when we surely do not have any ground to stand on.

"2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? 3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. 4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."

Man is caught in his own craftiness. It weaves a beautify tapestry but the ends remain unraveled. I found God later but this was not in nature. The irony is that He found me. We cannot hid from Him. He is the source of our wisdom, knowledge, and science. He is not subrational but supra-rational. He is not sub-personal but super-personal. In Him we move and have our very being. In Him we are who we are. Yet, we also in Him cry for him to have mercy upon us sinners. We are not perfect as he.

Now the impossibility of knowing God in nature is corrected by God himself. He gave believers His Spirit lest we can never know Him. Yet, The Holy Spirit is not of this creation. In part or in whole. It is by Him that my connection to God is secured. I am saved and born again. It is by Him that I find God loving. And love God in finding.