Sunday, September 30, 2007
A truly beautiful family
The members of the periodic table are indeed a very fine family--- by any measure . As you get to know them -you see, it not only shows you what makes them unique and able to share, but also just how wonderfully and efficiently they actually work together.
If you have the privilege ( As a Chemist or Physicist) of being invited into their home, you realise that only an amazing force and genuine fortune could get C,N and O ( let alone all the others ) to live and work so closely together!
From Time Magazine Nov 2006
Francis Collins ( Genome project) : The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang would not have occurred in the fashion that was necessary for life to occur. When you look at that evidence, it is very difficult to adopt the view that this was just chance. But if you are willing to consider the possibility of a designer, this becomes a rather plausible explanation for what is otherwise an exceedingly improbable event--namely, our existence.
If you have the privilege ( As a Chemist or Physicist) of being invited into their home, you realise that only an amazing force and genuine fortune could get C,N and O ( let alone all the others ) to live and work so closely together!
From Time Magazine Nov 2006
Francis Collins ( Genome project) : The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang would not have occurred in the fashion that was necessary for life to occur. When you look at that evidence, it is very difficult to adopt the view that this was just chance. But if you are willing to consider the possibility of a designer, this becomes a rather plausible explanation for what is otherwise an exceedingly improbable event--namely, our existence.
Isaiah's tight grip on Majesty?
How is it that these old words about hands and water still hold water in science theory and practice? How can this powerful rebuke to the pride of man and his knowledge of the big picture, still paint the same portrait of a thousand worlds away .
Which man can measure with his measure, the extent of the heavens Is 40:12
We can, it seems , still rightly rebuke the pride of others who "think they know so much " with these simple, but succinct words.
These blokes weren't to know that their mere roof and hands analogy of measurement would in epochs of much greater precision and decison still prove to describe the problem of measurement itself.
The roof of the Creators living room are still as far away as ever --from our understanding, if not always , our faith .
The Creator, it seems quite rational to suggest, only lets us see at any time in history, what he wants us to see?
As the whole passage suggests, this is quite within the limits of reason-- if only man would remember his place and specific measuring case in the space.
God, whoever he is, and through whatever medium he can move, seems amazingly capable of playing a game of very close engagement with his creation . If the aim though is to fix his place, he just moves again. Whatever happens, There is never Checkmate! Mate!
Which man can measure with his measure, the extent of the heavens Is 40:12
We can, it seems , still rightly rebuke the pride of others who "think they know so much " with these simple, but succinct words.
These blokes weren't to know that their mere roof and hands analogy of measurement would in epochs of much greater precision and decison still prove to describe the problem of measurement itself.
The roof of the Creators living room are still as far away as ever --from our understanding, if not always , our faith .
The Creator, it seems quite rational to suggest, only lets us see at any time in history, what he wants us to see?
As the whole passage suggests, this is quite within the limits of reason-- if only man would remember his place and specific measuring case in the space.
God, whoever he is, and through whatever medium he can move, seems amazingly capable of playing a game of very close engagement with his creation . If the aim though is to fix his place, he just moves again. Whatever happens, There is never Checkmate! Mate!
