Tuesday, February 19, 2008

WHO is not an anagram for HOW

Creation is God's doing. Sure. Why not. I'll post what I actually believe in the (near?) future, but for now we'll go with that.

So, God is Who and Creation is What. Good. Got that. But what about How? How did God do this Creation thing? I don't know. Neither do the scientists, who readily admit that all we can see, find and detect is a mere 4% of all the stuff that supposedly makes up our universe.

So maybe we chalk up the other 96% to God. Okay. I'm with ya. Still, that's Who, not How.

If there's a broken lamp on the floor and someone tells me the cat did it, I'm satisfied. I can see how that could have happened. But if the room is completely trashed with broken windows, broken ceiling tiles on top of overturned furniture, and all the wallpaper torn from the walls, telling me simply that the cat did it doesn't even begin to cut it. I need to know how a cat could have made such a spectacular catastrophe (sorry).

The same, albeit opposite, is true of God's Creation. Telling us that God did it doesn't satisfy our curiosity. We have a need, that He apparently gave us, to understand How. Will we ever attain such knowledge? Probably not. But since we're able to ask the question, we're sure as hell gonna try.

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