Hello ,
In his book God's
Undertaker, science writer John C. Lennox explains the scope and limits of science with the following story:
Let us imagine that Aunt Matilda has made a beautiful cake, and we take it along to be analyzed by a group of the world's top scientists .... The nutrition scientists will tell us about the number of calories in the cake and its
nutritional effect; the biochemists will inform us about the structure of proteins, fats, etc. in the cake ... the physicists will be able to analyze the cake in terms of fundamental particles; and the mathematicians will no doubt offer us a set of elegant equations to describe the behavior of those particles.
We have certainly been given a description of how the cake was made and how its
various [ingredients] relate to each other, but suppose I now ask the assembled group of experts a final question: Why was the cake made? The grin on Aunt Matilda's face shows she knows the answer, for she made it for a purpose. But all the [scientists] in the world will not be able to answer the question--and it is no insult to their disciplines to state their incapacity to answer it.
Their disciplines ... cannot answer the "why" questions connected with the purpose for which the cake was made. In fact, the only way we shall ever get an answer is if Aunt Matilda reveals it to us. But if she does not disclose the answer to us, the plain fact is that no amount of scientific analysis will enlighten us.
The same is true of our Creator. We can analyze all of creation; break down the elements, quantify the parts, explore the minutia. We cannot however explain the "why" of Creation until it is revealed to us by the Creator.
God's word (the Bible) explains the "why" of creation in amazing detail, and we are reminded as we read it, that we have a Creator God who loves us and has our best eternal interest in mind.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men." John 1:1-4
Have a great day and God bless!
