The Quest for an Antidote (Cont’d)
Because the Greatest Minds of Natural Philosophy Saw What Most People Are Still Blind To
In searching for an antidote to cynicism, we will find ourselves surveying familiar territory, although it’s territory that will take on new meaning in this ages-long quest. In this case, I’m talking about the ever-present role of the natural world in God’s creation, to uniquely communicate a message to a humanity that is all-too-often oblivious to what is right in front of them, hidden in plain sight. This idea is most succinctly stated in Scripture, when the Apostle Paul described it this way:
For what may be known about God is evident to all, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power, and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that mankind is without excuse.
The Book of Romans
As such, this message conveyed through the natural world around us, speaks just as loudly to people who don’t believe in the God of The Bible as it does to those who do. More importantly—and this is the unexpected turn I alluded to—our investigation into the natural world will reveal a startling twist, because in examining the history of humanity’s relationship to God’s creation, we confront many facts that no typical science lesson ever imparts.
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That is to say, one of the most cynical theories of human existence, namely “evolution,” could never have been formulated by Charles Darwin had he not inherited a school of thought utterly alien to his own atheistic perspective. That school of thought—developed by natural philosophers beginning in the seventeenth-century—described the intricate relationship between the Earth and all living things on it as a direct function of the God of The Bible, which is why it came to be known as the Economy of Nature. That’s because proponents of this new worldview were able to demonstrate the remarkable way that every aspect of the natural world exhibits predictably consistent patterns in spite of all its apparently random aspects, which to the untrained eye give the impression that Nature is nothing more than a by-product of a disinterested Universe.
It was this unique worldview, bequeathed to history by men like Robert Boyle, John Ray, Kenelm Digby, Thomas Burnet, and Carl Linnaeus, that ultimately laid the foundation for many of our modern-day sciences, such as chemistry, biology, botany, zoology, anthropology, and ecology. This divinely-inspired worldview—this Economy of Nature—which speaks of the universally observable qualities of the natural world, is what I’ll be proposing provides us with an answer for what ails us most.
In short, what follows here will be my attempt to restore a universal message of God’s creation so that not only will the reader learn exactly how this divinely-inspired worldview was hijacked and reworked to the subsequent hurt of the modern world, but they will also come to understand the original intention that the greatest minds of natural philosophy intended for their discovery. In doing so, the world may yet encounter a most unexpected remedy to one of the most destructive forces in God’s creation—more corrosive than sin and the enemy of hope—yet one that can be conquered by even a child: the “joy” of cynicism.
