Observers with Imagination
People, in my opinion, were created to observe our surroundings and use our imagination to look for patterns that repeat themselves. The shortfall is that we only know what we know. Let me go through my physics experience to explain.
In High School, I took and loved a physics class. It used mathematics, which I enjoyed, and applied it to the real world (to give mathematics value beyond itself). There was something about calculated angles of reflection (such as in playing pool), launching cannon balls and estimating where they will land, and simple electricity problems that was enjoyable to me.
In my second year of college, I took physics for engineering majors. My college had two general physics classes, one for engineering majors that used the math and another one that was for non-engineering majors that limited the applications to simpler math (I tutored some of them so I saw both). The class I took quickly morphed into very difficult calculus applications and, I must admit, I didn’t enjoy it as much. For example, did you know that every electronic device creates a magnetic field that has a direction and magnitude and that it is important to know that in certain situations such as the interaction with other electronic devices components?
Anyway, near the end of the year, we had just finished a thought exercise about whether a person got more wet running through the rain or walking through it (think carefully and you will see it is not an obvious answer), and the professor briefly touched on - for several days - quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is the theory of the very small interactions and it gets bizarre. You stop being able to calculate where and how something is and start talking about probabilities of being here or there. He suggested that he could take a rubber ball, go outside and bounce it against the side of the building and there was a calculable probability that the ball, when it hit the building, would instantly disappear and reappear on the opposite side of the building - and then showed us some of the math behind his assertion. (I have always suspected this might be behind missing socks and Tupperware lids, but I have no proof.)
Based on my life experiences, I believe the sun will come up in the morning, it will get cold next winter, I will likely catch a cold, and many other observations that I have turned into theories of expectation for the future. It fascinates me that, in almost every situation I can think of, the actual environment is infinitely more complex than my analysis (or my learning of other’s analysis) suggests. I have come to accept that no person knows everything about any subject.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” - Genesis 1:1 ESV
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” - Hebrews 11:1-3
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” - Revelation 4:11
We worship a God who did create everything including you and me. The creation is more complex than we can ever imagine. It is through his absolute, omniscient power that he created and maintains everything. Yet, through the love that he has for his creation, he gave us his son to die that we might be grafted as heirs with him in heaven. If that does not make you, my fellow believer, feel special… I don’t know what would.
