In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
- Genesis 1:1-2
You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.
- Nehemiah 9:6
“Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
- Isaiah 37:16
But God made the earth by his power;
he founded the world by his wisdom
and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
- Jeremiah 10:12
“Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
- Jeremiah 32:17
“ ‘The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking’ – Albert Einstein”
- Bryan Magee, The Story of Philosophy
“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German theoretical physicist. He developed the theory of relativity and contributed to quantum theory.
I have mentioned this before, but in my required Physics course in college (two semesters), the professor decided to take a break from the textbook, not that our exam would not cover the entire textbook. He started asking the class one thing and then another. By the end of the hour lecture, one blackboard was filled with mathematical equations that represented various physics laws that a graduate level physicist should know, although I was a sophomore. Have I mentioned that engineering students did not think this type of thing was brutal? We were used to it.
The professor had just enough room left on the blackboard to write “Do Not Erase.”
The next class period two days later, the professor took a couple of the equations from the previous class. Remember, all these equations came from students in the class. The professor took like symbols and started to make substitutions. Again, just enough room left over to write “Do Not Erase.”
After two weeks of “lectures” where he took things that we already knew and substituted a term in one physics equation with the same term in another, he starts asking what the value of one term was or another. The point was that we knew what values among is combined equations equaled zero, and dividing by zero got infinity. And dividing by infinity got zero. So, we took this monster equation with terms all over the place. One piece after another was eliminated.
And when we saw what was left, we were dumbfounded. The professor had filled five large blackboards with “common knowledge”, at least among physicists. What was left was Energy equal to mass times the speed of light squared.
My point is that this equation that made Einstein famous was there for anyone to find. And in a way, the Einstein quote above was a confession. He did not dream up something that was far out in space. He took what people already knew and applied some everyday thinking to it.
God created order in His Creation. With that free will thing everyone talks about, mankind can mess up the order that God created. God created and called it good, and we messed it up.
And then some smart people figured out how God had done it.
Not all of these scientific discoverers were Christians, but I have read that Sir Isaac Newton and other of his day studied science specifically to figure out “how God did it.”
And the first to discover it, whatever “it” might be, is lauded as a genius, but Newton and Einstein simply thought some everyday thinking. And the people around them exclaimed, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
Some of the stuff out there today does not hold up to heavy scrutiny. When we take God out of the equation, we dig deep into this “new theory” and we find that it does not hold up. But when we accept God into the equation, it works out.
I fear that the world has accepted this godless theory and regardless of whether it even makes sense, they will stick to it. But for those that love God, their science comes from everyday thinking, and God watches their steps.
If you like these Tuesday morning essays about philosophy and other “heavy topics,” but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Tuesday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.
Soli Deo Gloria. Only to God be the Glory.
Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley 
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