God as humble artist


God is a humble artist. I remember when I was very young that my dad had a big star gazing telescope set up on a concrete stand in the back garden through which we could examine the craters of the moon. This photo was taken last month through an old tripod telescope with an iphone 4. It amazed me then, and it amazes me now that we can see the clear contours and craters of a satellite that orbits our own planet, a moon that we know is around 240 thousand miles away. I loved Dr Cox's TV series 'Wonders of the Universe' and I frequently read books that can explain quantum physics for dummies, and recently read through the popular book '20 Things That Don't Make Sense' - which poses such questions as 'Where is 98% of the Universe?' (the question of dark matter; the invisible material that we assume must be out there in order for the universe to be behaving the way it does). Good questions are the life blood of good science and by all accounts there are a good many yet unanswered, because as we all know, the more you know, the more you don't know.... or at least that used to be the case.
It appears that for some, because science has given us descriptions of many of the laws and physics of the universe; laws that can satisfy the mind in terms of the physical parameters of what we see or experience, that this somehow makes something less of the mystery or wonder that these truths should generate. Or maybe they are happy to simply enjoy the experience of the beauty of these laws, without reference to the artist behind them. God, like any humble artist, seems willing for his art to be enjoyed with or without reference to its maker. Maybe, like other artists, God knows that the real fans of his work will feel they have developed some affinity with their author and may want to know something more about them.

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