“I thank thee, Lord God our Creator, that thou allowest me to see the beauty in thy work of creation.”
- Johannes Kepler
Looking around the archives of First Things, I came across this article. It is a response to another article from Wall Street Journal and gives a basic reasoning on how God and science can mix. The quote above comes from that article.
That quote got me thinking on the sciences. Science was a way to look into the laws and the ordering of creation. It had almost a revelatory purpose and hence it raised man up by pointing them to something that was higher than themselves. It pointed toward God. Contrast that with what goes on today where one hurries to publish every minuscule discovery before some other person makes the exact same discovery. It is research but to what end?
Something similar can be said about the arts, where it also was for pointing us to something higher. Now anyone that can put words to paper, line to canvas, hold a note or even cook is considered an artist, and everyone clamors to get their 15 minutes of fame.
In the arts and in the sciences, I fear that we have put ourselves up as idols…
