Last week we learned that Genesis 1 is all about authority. If God made all things, then He is in authority over all things. He tells us how to best use the things He has made, and in humility we submit to His design. And that humility, that comes from the authority and majesty of God in creation, is what leads us into wonder at God’s creation. When was the last time something in God’s Creation led you into wonder? The universe contains enough wonder to captivate us all and it is wonder that drives us to remember our place in it. In Job 38, God uses the creation to remind Job that he has forgotten both authority and wonder. Later on Job responds in wonder at God’s authority which leads him into wonder at creation itself. Throughout the first part of our Genesis series we will talk about science and creation. When properly used, studying God’s creation through science leads us into wonder which is good. But science was never meant to be our ultimate authority. Those who misuse science say that human reason alone is to be our ultimate authority. But Genesis 1 says that God alone, the One who gave human beings our reason, is to be our highest authority. It’s a tragedy that science and Genesis 1 have been pitted against each other, that they are seen as competing narratives where only one is possible. Science can never fully prove or disprove the Bible, and the Bible was not written to counter and disprove science. But as we will see this morning, it is the Bible itself that launches, grounds and sanctifies science. It is Genesis 1 that makes science even possible. The Bible is not a science book but it is not an unscientific book. It calls us to get wisdom, to get knowledge and to get understanding not just of spiritual things but of the world our Father created. The Bible invites us to observe and to wonder in humility; Proverbs, Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes are all scientific in their nature. They call us to observe and catalog how things are made and how they work, and from that observation to come to the right conclusion of why we were made and how life works.
