The Celestial Piper

Certain scientists have helped us to understand God's mysterious power and creative nature.  Knowing that such learned people reverence God strengthens our own faith.

As scientists peer into their telescopes and microscopes, they see the mysterious and infinite nature of God.  On one hand, they see the galaxies composing mind-boggling reaches of outer space, while on the other hand, they search to describe atomic structure, and viruses within the cell.  In trying to explain the phenomena of science, they can only begin to perceive the organized thought and action of the Mastermind of Creation described in Scripture.  There one reads, "He made the earth by His power; He founded the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by His understanding." (Jeremiah 51:15)  Man has no excuse for not acknowledging God's creativity.  The Bible tells us, "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -his eternal power and divine nature -have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (Romans 1:20)

Dr. Albert Einstein, well-known for his theory of relativity said, "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."  Blaise Pascal, a minister better known for his scientific work, spoke for all of us concerning the awesomeness of the great endlessness of celestial space, when he said, "the eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."

Abraham Lincoln believed, "God created man, an intelligent race, for His own will and pleasure, to enjoy seeing him discover and comprehend scientific phenomena, and infinite spaces; even to provide for him a life of eternity."  With implicit faith in God and His creativity, Lincoln said, "Surely, God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only a day.  No, no, man was made for immortality."   He could have been thinking of God's Word, where it says, "You crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of Your hands." (Hebrews 2:7)

There tends to be a great deal of argument as to which is more reliable, Science or the Bible.  Depending  upon their sphere of learning, men and women have held tenaciously to their beliefs.  As their knowledge expanded and encompassed other disciplines, they integrated science and religion.  The more a person understands science and its mysteriousness, the greater must become his or her faith in God.  Conversely, there can be no great theologian who disregards science, because science is God's means through which all has been created.

Albert Einstein stated, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind," which explains the relationship that should exist in the minds of thinking men.  He was asked if he believed in God.  He acknowledged that he did and added, "It seems to me that the attitude of even the most intelligent human beings toward God is that the universe is seen as marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but these laws are only dimly understood."

The Psalmist too, was awed by nature and was inspired to write about the Designer behind the design, saying, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands." (Psalms 19:1)

As we behold our universe and all that is in it, our reaction is a feeling of wonderment.  The Creator's work is apparent.  Scripture tell us, "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made." (John 1:3)  We need only to look up into the night sky to be amazed at the stars and planets, all of which point toward its design, and know that creation's design points to the Master Designer.  The same is true if we were to look into the depths of a powerful microscope and observe that microscopic world.

Albert Einstein compared the world made by God with the abundance of literary and scientific works to be found in a library.  The authors are represented by their unique knowledge.  Though they cannot be seen, their lives must be acknowledged by what they did.  Similarly, by His lovely handiwork round about us,
God is seen and recognized as the Creator of the world.

Things of nature are so well organized that there has to be a Designer and Creator, just as the watch on one's wrist implies a watchmaker.  By our own existence, our Creator is implied.  The organization of elements in the electrochemical series and of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, including light and radio waves, implies an Infinitely Intelligent Genius of Immense Originality and Creativity.  Once again, Albert Einstein intertwined science and theology when he said, "Everything is determined for the insect as well as for the star, human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust.  We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an Invisible Piper."  By saying that God controls all nature with a systematic rhythm, he could not have stated it more succinctly, for he tended to reinforce the thought of  pipers in Paradise, with God being the "Invisible Piper."  Our whole world pulses to the rhythmic beat of the Celestial Piper!

We are grateful to our Lord, for men like Blaise Pascal and Albert Einstein, who have presented to us the infinite, as a scientist would see it.  They have related the things of science to the mysterious nature of God, to God the Maker of this Universe, the One who controls all nature with a systematic rhythm.