Creation and science

Creator of heaven and earth 4
Creation and science

Christianity understands the universe to be a created reality that is distinct from God yet reveals God’s fingerprints at point after point. There is an obvious spiritual lesson here: to study God’s creation is to catch glimpses of the beauty and wisdom of the invisible God in the visible world. During the period of the European Renaissance another aspect of the Christian doctrine of creation began to emerge as particularly significant: God had created an ordered universe, which could be described mathematically by the ‘laws of nature’...