The book club that I'm currently in meets monthly to discuss a book. The current book that we are reading is titled, A Faith and Culture Devotional. The book has daily readings in Art, Science and Life. A great book it seems that give more meat to the devotional snacking (as Dr. Fairman would call it).
The first entry in this book is called "A Christian Theory of Everything," by Dr. Sam Storms, PhD, former professor of theology at Wheaton College. The devotional is adapted from his book One Thing: Developing a Passion for the Beauty of God.
In short, Dr. Storms explains that "physicists and cosmologists are ever in search for what they call 'a theory of everything,' an all-encompassing theory that can account for everything from subatomic world of particle physics to the galactic expanse of super-novas and black holes. He goes on to explain that the latest scientific effort to pin up a "Theory of Everything" is string theory. (Which, by the way, as soon as I read that I though to myself, I just can't get away from this string theory stuff!)
Dr. Stroms expains that the problem isn't that scientists have gone too far in trying to explain the existence of everything we know, the problem is, Dr. Stroms explains, "is that they haven't gone far enough!"
He suggests that if scientists would look the study even what is beyond the theory of strings there they would find that "everything exists for the glory of God." Here's an excerpt from the devotional that perhaps you might find helpful in devoting your day today to your Maker:
"The answer is that everything exists for the glory of God. Everything - from quarks to quasars, from butterflies to brain cells - was created and is sustained so that you and I might delight in the display of divine glory. Only humans are fashioned in the image of God. We are the only species that establishes schools and conducts research adn preserves archives of information. We alone have been granted remarkable capacities to reason adn reflect, deduce and conclude. We alone can glorify God by rejoicing in the beauty of his creative handiwork and relishing the splendor of his self-revelation in the person and redemptive work of Jesus Christ."
