Last night, the prof was talking about our different standards of evaluating things. With the dawn of the enlightenment era, we (as Western human beings) embraced the scientific method: we wanted the most modern technological advances, we believe God to be a Lawyer in the Courtroom, but we will pay top dollar to someone who has the academic credentials of lawyer. Likewise, we believe God to be a Doctor in the Sickroom, but we won't stop paying our health insurance. Sure, we will pray, but that's often after the doctors have given up on us. Not in all cases, but in some.
And that's the root of my question. How DO we embrace God -- how DOES God live in our measured world? For me, I happen to believe that God is in the mix even in our scientific measurements -- that God is behind those systems that have been set up. Humans have not created the scientific method, we've only stumbled upon the consistency that is God. So when I'm having surgery, for instance, I will pray that God will guide the hands of the surgeons and the anesthesiologists and so on -- yes, they do their scientific thing, but it's inside of God's divine will. They are instruments of God's will -- necessary agents to achieve God's divine purpose.
Anyway. Those are my thoughts right now. Gotta get to work. Busy planning my trip to Costa Rica in May. I plan to do a canopy tour, perhaps to go to Tortuguero, perhaps to go to Puerto Viejo, or Bocas del Toro in Panama to see dolphins and do snorkeling. We'll see. Should be fun.
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