I am reading a very interesting book by K. C. Cole called “First You Build a Cloud and Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life”. You don’t have to be a physics geek like me to enjoy this one. She writes in a very refreshing way about physics that gives anybody a better perspective on the world/universe around us.

The purpose of this book is to reconnect our science minds to those things we see in everyday life not just isolated things seen in the lab. Why are we not amazed every time we see a cloud? A cloud is the only answer to Bob Miller’s question of “How would you hold a hundred tons of water in thin air with no visible means of support?” Have you ever thought about a cloud in that way? Do we even look up to the sky any more?

When was the last time you thought about how we revolve around the sun in just the special orbit that keeps our temperature just right to sustain life? How the earth revolves on it’s axis at just the right speed? How plants need carbon dioxide and expel oxygen and how we need oxygen and expel carbon dioxide? How electrons are moved through conductive materials from some far away generator so that my laptop can have the power it needs for it to be on?

Scientists are asking the great questions of “Why?” and “How?” But I have a problem with their answer to the “ultimate how and why?” The “ultimate how and why” is how did all these “laws and theories” come about to make the universe and why. The scientists’ answer is “Just because. It just happened.” Reminds me of a bumper sticker.

It’s like the old joke where some scientist approach God and say that they don’t need Him anymore because we humans can do it all ourselves. God then says, “OK, let’s have a contest then. Each of us will make a human being.” The scientist then reach down and pick up some dirt to which God says, “No, no. You have to make your own dirt first.”

For me the answer to the ultimate how and why is much easier to understand. Because I believer there is a God in the equation who is so great and powerful that He created it all to work in this harmonious way for the purpose of glorifying Him and enjoying Him forever.

So tonight as you look up to the sky and see the stars, think about whether you think they “just happened” or do you believe there is a God big enough to create and place them in just such a way that the universe works. Next time you turn on the light, think about how the energy that is being expelled from the light bulb in such a way that you are able to see. Then ask yourself “How were our eyes created to be able to see that form of energy?”. Was it just by chance or was made so by a purposeful Creator who wanted you to see the beauty that He created?