“We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.” – Bill Nye, Science Guy
| Psalm 8 (NIV)
A psalm of David. For the director of music. According to gittith. |
What is Man? |
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1 Lord, our Lord, You have set your glory |
1. God’s Majesty and Might:
All of creation declares the Glory of God While some deny the existence of God Romans 1:20, like Mr. Nye. |
| 2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. |
God will use the weak to shame the strong. Though they make fun of the idea of a Creator now, later they will be silenced. |
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3 When I consider your heavens, |
2. Man’s Sense of Insignificance: From the perspective of the vast universe man seems small and insignificant. Modern science teaches that man is a product of blind chance, an accident. But, Not So! |
| 5 You have made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. |
3. God’s Role for Man:
Made in God’s image. |
| 6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: |
Though the universe is vast and makes us seem insignificant, God has given mankind a position of extraordinary honor and glory. |
| 7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, 8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. |
We are to rule over all the works of God’s hands as vice regents.
Additionally we judge the angels. 1 Corinthians 6:3 |
| 9 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! |
4. Praise to God |
If we raise a generation of students who don’t believe in the process of science, who think everything that we’ve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, you’re not going to continue to innovate. – Bill Nye
But, Not So! Science is a byproduct of Christianity. Curious man, made in God’s image.
“The greatest contribution of Christianity to the formation of the scientific movement was the inexpugnable belief in a secret that can be unveiled. That this conviction has seized the European mind can only be explained in terms of the medieval insistence on the rationality of God, conceived as with the personal energy of Jehovah and with the rationality of a Greek philosopher.” – Alfred North Whitehead
“This conception of God led to the notion that every “detail” in nature was supervised and ordered: the search into nature could only result in the vindication of the faith in rationality.
And there is no question that all of the great scientists of the early modern era, men like Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Kepler, “confessed…their absolute faith in a creator God, whose work incorporated rational rules awaiting discovery.” – Rodney Stark
By Richard Loper