design.er

Basket weavers have nothing on spiders and their webs.
A rain drop captures the light just right to create a beautiful array of colors.
The earth rotates just far enough from the sun to keep us from melting (literally, not like North Carolina melting) but close enough to keep us from freezing like popsicles.

I’ve recently cracked open a new book that reviews a few famous people and their discoveries or inventions. Such as the guy who invented Calculus, um…Sir Isaac Newton, I think. I find it strange to think about someone inventing math. 2+2=4 It just is. See- I’ll show you with my fingers. So I can’t show you the derivative of the x squared plus 8 on my fingers. Still, the reality of such theories, facts, and formulas figured to explain what is already present in the world amazes me. The minds of these great scientists astound me especially when I think that they were doing all this at my age. Outrageous!

Beyond this remarkable realization is the greater truth that might seemed overshadowed by human accomplishments. The Design. And the Designer. How incredible that all that scientists work tirelessly toward understanding is simply to put into words the ways of the natural world. “It just is” does not work. It’s not even a good understatement for the workings of the world and universe. Newton can describe and formulate the force of gravity, but the fact it even exists as it does makes gravity and the creator of gravity so astounding. Science, math, and all other disciplines, really, have a profound discovery to make in figuring out more of the design. To not try would be a loss to everyone. Experiencing the design in its natural place is one thing, but to put the phenomena into words can only highlight its majesty and that of its creator.