1. The Whirlpool galaxy. NGC 5194. 37 million light years away
The Whirlpool galaxy. NGC million light years away. (A light year is about 6 trillion miles.)
Credit to N. Scoville, T. Rector, the Hubble Heritage Team, NASA.
Found at <

2. Nasa photograph, #AS17-148-22727, public domain.

3. From NASA, #AS16-113-18339, public domain.

4. Vern S. Poythress, Ph.D., Th.D. Westminster Theological Seminary2
Christ in Science
Vern S. Poythress, Ph.D., Th.D.
Westminster Theological Seminary

5. 2
I. Scientific Law

6. God’s Rule (seasons)
God's promise to Noah:
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
--Genesis 8:22

7. God’s Rule (weather) He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs;
who can stand before his cold?
He sends out his words, and melts them;
he makes his wind blow
and the waters flow.
--Psalm 147:17-18

8. God’s Rule (darkness; grass)
You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the beasts of the forest creep about.
--Psalm 104:20 1
You cause grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for man to cultivate, ...
--Psalm 104:14

9. (Webster’s Dictionary)
Regularity 1
regula (Latin)
= rule
regular 2
“ordered according to
some established rule,
law, principle, or type”
(Webster’s Dictionary)

10. Scientific Laws *
Newton's laws
Dalton's law
Kirchhoff's laws

11. Sameness of Law 3 1 all places omnipresent 4 5 2 all times eternal
immutable
not changing

12. Attributes * Immaterial Invisible Omnipotent Truthful Transcendent
Immanent

13. Problems with Miracle? Miracles 1 3 attested in 2 the Bible
impossible? 4 5 6
awkward
breaking law?
God’s word not
broken
God’s rule is
comprehensive
outside law?

14. Miracle in a Biblical Framework
surprising us 1 3
contradicting
our guess
about law 2
harmony
with Biblical
teaching
conforming to
God’s plan

15. Is the Law Personal? 1 2 3 law law-giver 4 5 only persons can reason
rational
only persons
use language
language-like

16. Further Attributes *
Good
Beautiful
Righteous

17. The Father and the Son Language involves: speaker word breath1 2
Language involves:
speaker
word
breath
power to send out and effect 3 4
Father
Word

18. The Son as the Word
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3)

19. The Son as Creator
For us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (1 Cor. 8:6)

20. The Role of the Word
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. (Gen. 1:3) 1 2
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. (Gen. 1:5)
And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, ..." (Gen. 1:11)

21. The Role of the Word, the Son
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. (Gen. 1:3) 1
In the beginning was the Word, ... (John 1:1)

22. Trinitarian Creation God the Father The Word image "Let there be ..."2
God the Father
The Word 1
image
God
"Let there be ..."

23. Trinitarian Language involves: speaker word breath
power to send out and effect 1
Father
Word
Spirit

24. Spirit and Breath By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
(Ps. 33:6)
Hebrew:
ruach 1 2
also, Spirit

25. God Showing Himself
Romans 1:19-20
Psalm 19:1-2
Romans 1:21-23

26. Romans 1:19-20
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.

27. Psalm 19:1-2 The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours out speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge.

28. Romans 1:21-23
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

29. Spirograph nebula. An exploded star. IC 418.
It is about 2000 light years from the earth, in the constellation Lepus (The Hare). It is the ejecta from a red giant that has shed its outer layers.
Picture from <