Calvin College - Prism Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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cvsciencew U 0 CD 3 C CD U . 0 inSCISI'ICSCD The scientist at Calvin goes about his worlt with a special purpose, lnhisstudiesand researches he is not satisfied merely to learn causes and effects and a number of semi-related facts. l-le is seelcing rather to fit the data of science into a meaningful pattern: he is working to build a truly Christian philosophy of science. The universe is to him a wonderfully vast, intricate, and fascinating system, one whose laws are distinctly meaningful as part of the revelation of God, l le applies himself diligently to the task of dis- covering and interpreting those laws. l-le observes the stars and learns the forces which govern their steadily circling galaxies. l-le counts the ingredients of the sun and finds its elements repeated on earth, he talces them into the laboratory and refines and compounds them, he probes the invisible structures of the atom and measures the vast energies hidden there. l-le watches a speclc of life creeping doggedly across a glass slide, and he observes while small green dots join water, air, and sunshine by their own secret process. l-le studies all this and more, seelting out the fundamental rules of nature. These principles are not the end of the Christianis inquiry, how- ever, Knowledge ofthe universe is only a means to a nobler end: the glorification of God. lo the scientist who is a Christian, the orderliness, the rich variety, and the ultimate mystery of nature are reflections of the wisdom and power and majesty of God. 25

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