GOD'S FINGERPRINTS

Remark from Ben Goldacre in 'Bad Science':

"Nature is beautiful, gracefully simple yet rewardingly complex."

Solomon "pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs"
Maybe one of the first scientists ?

'Also he spoke of trees, from the cedar of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.'
1 Kings 4 vs 32

'The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding'
Proverbs 9 vs 10

The study of nature requires humility, the mark of a true scientist.

ENEMY TERRITORY

"...the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one."1 John 5 : 19
Do we really believe this?

"Endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."2 Timothy 2 : 3
Do we have a choice?

CLONES

Man in the image of man.

NEMESIS

Industrialisation turned nature into a resource.

Now we are reaping the wrath of its misuse.

PROGRESS

Unending possibilities of self-gratification.

Anticipation is the bait, possession palls.

BITTERNESS

Man dislikes bitterness and removes the germ from the wheat, and so its life-giving properties.

He does the same with the gospel.

FALSE RELIGION

Delighting in the truth is no guarantee that we will live by it.

Ardent religion can be mistaken for true spirituality.

LUST

Cain was ordered to do what he should have done, but could not do. He was warned that sin was crouching at the door, with a lust for him. He was told that he should rule over it.
He could not and so in anger, killed his brother, Abel.

There should be a daily discipline of squelching our lusts.
Their desire is to rule us.
God desires our bodies that He may demonstrate Himself through them. Men become His agents of redemption.

"Present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service" Romans 12 vs 1

WISDOM

The young may understand technology, but have no wisdom to avoid its thrall.

STRANGE WAYS

We promote assisted suicide, but prolong the life of a criminal.

We abort children but seek desperately to conceive in unnatural ways.

ADVICE FROM THE PAST

"Being seldom in a solemn spirit before the Lord ruins many professors of godliness."

CITIES

Strangers squashed together in cities, unwillingly invading each other’s private space.
We build walls around us and retreat into a technological world of our own.

AMERICAN DREAM

Affluence a birth right.

Groomed to desire from the cradle.

One man's dream is another man's nightmare.

NO GOD

No sin, no shame. No shame, no fear of God. No God