By M. A.
The first time I weighed an electron I had tears in my eyes.
I had tears when I saw my first cell and first beating heart.
In today’s world many people think that science and religion are opposing forces with each set on destroying the other. To me, science and religion are like a living soul. The soul of man is defined by the Lord as the union of spirit and body. When viewed together, science (the temporal) and religion (the spiritual) help us understand the soul of God. The Lord has created all things both spiritual and temporal and we are told that the temporal is in the likeness of the spiritual.
When I weighed the electron I glimpsed one of the fundamental units of creation. When I saw my first human cell I saw the fundamental unit of human life and I was awed at its complexity.
As Pres. Kimball once said, we are truly Gods in embryo. My first beating heart humbled me with it perfection. I remembered that the Savior has commanded us to become as perfect and to learn of Him. For me, science and religion are woven together so tightly that each tells the story of the other.
To weigh an electron is to glimpse the infinite intelligence of our Creator.
To hold a newborn, whose beginning was a single cell, is to learn the purpose of God in giving us eternal families.
And to sit quietly, while holding the hand of a beloved family member when the heart stops beating, is to see the Face of God.
Beautiful. God is the Master Scientist. The perfection of nature's workings is miraculous.
ReplyDeleteI just found this very interesting Ensign article on the gospel and science, and also I was thinking of how cool it is that God works with scientific laws.
This is a site with a bunch of quotes about science and God. They are all good. But I liked this one:
“God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.”
–Nobel Prize winning physicist Paul A. M. Dirac, who made crucial early contributions to both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.