Giving Credit to God?

Giving Credit to God?

by Taylor Moffitt of Halydean

Over the last thousand years, wanting to give credit to God, theologians of the past have made the mistake of attributing things which we do not understand to the divine intervention of God.

When Isaac Newton asked why does the moon orbit the earth, he was not satisfied with the pat answer that most people were telling him: “God makes it orbit the earth.” Effectively, this reduced God to only being necessary to explain the things that we did not understand, as if God is reduced to a sort of hocus pocus recluse.

Instead, Newton did research. Newton found what we now all know are the Newtonian laws of physics. The moon orbits the earth because of inertia and gravity. Newton believed that it was God who established the laws of nature. Sir Isaac’s opinion about science and God can be summed up by his quote, “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”

So, rather than attempting to credit God in a superstitious manner and only for the things which we do not understand, we should give God credit for his revelation in the complexity of all of the things which we have finally come to understand.

The laws of physics, relativity, and of quantum physics, and of all of the mysteries of the unknown quantum fluctuations which we do not yet understand might all be summed up as “the laws of nature.” The laws of nature give us a better understanding of how God designed and how God orders his universe.

The laws of nature declare the glory of God.