One of the most pressing issues in today’s world is the issue of safe, clean energy. After hundreds of years of consuming the world’s various resources, mankind is waking up to the reality that those resources are not unlimited. In more recent years, this realization has led to the search for alternate sources of energy. There has been an accelerated development of wind farms, solar arrays, and efforts to harness the power of fusion reactions.
If we look beyond the surface of these various efforts to provide the power we require in today’s environment, we might find overlooked but powerful evidence that supports our faith.
So, what has the need for alternate sources of power have to do with faith?
The common element of all the sources of power we use is the ultimate need to supplement our human abilities. We can see, but not in the dark. We need light. We can move under our own power, but not fast enough or far enough to be practical. We need to be able to move faster and farther. We can hear, but only within a reasonable distance. We can build shelters to protect us from the cold, but we need to generate heat to fill that space.
It all comes down to a need for energy. What we fail to realize, is that energy is not only all around us, we are part of that mix of energy.
If we apply our logic and science to the energy puzzle, we would come to understand that our universe, our very existence is the result of unending atomic energy. It is the continuous dance of charged particles that exists in all matter. Since there seems to be a limited number of elements that comprise our known world, your body contains the same elements that we would find in a vacuum cleaner, an insect, or even a rock. And each of those common elements exists because of the energy that defines it.
Beyond the veil of our human abilities, we might find that all that exists, including ourselves, is connected by that universal energy. It also means that all the power we could ever need is already out there, waiting for us to learn how to tap into that endless energy bank.
More importantly, it is another example of the absurd concept that this energy puzzle that defines our human form and the wealth of resources that we need, is the result of a cosmic accident. More likely, it is proof that it is all the result of an incredibly complex intelligent design.