The wonder of creation

I love to sing. Music speaks to me. It’s so natural and so easy and perhaps primal. It feels like the kind of skill that is basic to our humanity. The love of music is at once universal and yet personal.

I watched a video about the music theory behind a powerful key change in a song. I was awestruck by the science and math behind it. The understanding of what is happening both physically and psychologically when powerful music is presented. It was spell binding. The depth and complexity of what is happening belies the simplicity of the actual act. The science behind tone, our hearing process, our feeling centres, how sound waves reverberate and how harmonies are produced is fascinating.

I feel the same way when I hear an explanation of how birds fly. A bird never asks or wonders, a bird just flies. But there is a genius behind the whole process. Yet for a bird it is simple enough, it is constant and never changes. Every day the bird flies and gets the same result. It is an act of such complexity and yet we can explain it through the language of mathematics.

Behind the natural world and our human experience appears to be a network of design. Like a great web of hidden rebar that holds our world together. A web so purposeful and predictable that only the mind of a great Creator could have built it.

When I listen to explanations like the ones I listed above, I feel like the curtain is pulled back a little. I feel as though I’ve scratched a bit of the frost from the window and I can see beyond it, just for a second or two.

The amazing nature of creation is astounding. The deeper we dig the more order and purpose we find.

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;
then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known.