Some Miracles Happen Supernaturally. Others Happen ‘Hypernaturally'

According to the Bible, Jesus has a great aptitude with physics, chemistry, and biology. As verses like Hebrews 1:2 and John 1:3 attest, the whole universe was made through him! Even now, Jesus holds everything together—from quantum particles to distant galaxies (Col. 1:17). He is the author and upholder of creation—just as surely as he is the author and upholder of salvation.

According to a quote often attributed to Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer, when we study the cosmos, we are “thinking God’s thoughts after him.” Thus, when a group of astrophysicists jump for joy at hearing a billion-year-old gravitational wave for the first time, they’re hearing a sound that was spoken in joy. When researchers delight in discovering an intricate pattern, they are sharing the delight of a maker who imagined the pattern in the first place. When chemists use a catalyst to make more out of matter, they are mimicking the cosmos-catalyzing work of Christ.

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