We tend to define miracles based on how they differ from the norm of our everyday life’s experiences. In doing so, we blind ourselves to the miracles that are so common that we fail to recognize them.
Take, for instance – gravity.
We all experience gravity on a day-to-day basis. Gravity is what keeps your feet on the ground. Gravity is the cause of the bruises you might get if you trip and fall while walking. Gravity is the reason rivers flow to the sea and raindrops fall from the sky. Gravity holds the air that we breathe in a tight wrap around our world.
Gravity causes the Earth to continue to circle the sun instead of shooting off into space.
Our greatest scientific minds attempt to explain gravity to us using theories and language that few of us truly understand.
Newton’s law of universal gravitation offers a simple, yet effective, description. According to Newton’s law, every mass attracts every other mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers. While Newton’s law is an approximation of gravity in certain regimes, it can be derived from Einstein’s theory in the limit of weak gravitational fields and low speeds.
According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravity arises due to the curvature of spacetime caused by the presence of mass and energy. Massive objects, such as planets, stars, and galaxies, warp the fabric of spacetime around them. This curvature influences the paths that objects, even massless particles like photons, take through spacetime, causing them to move along curved trajectories.
While general relativity successfully describes gravity on large scales, it is incompatible with quantum mechanics, which governs the behavior of particles on the smallest scales. The quest for a theory of quantum gravity continues to be a major challenge in modern physics, as it seeks to reconcile the principles of general relativity with those of quantum mechanics. In summary, gravity is caused by the curvature of spacetime in the presence of mass and energy, as described by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This curvature influences the motion of objects, causing them to be attracted to one another.
Blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, well, that’s all well and good. But what is missing is a simple explanation of how the same massive force that keeps the moon in orbit around the Earth can leave an ant unharmed when it falls off the picnic table.
What’s missing is the “Why?
Most of us will accept the science community’s explanations of how an object’s “mass” can bend space-time, and all that hocus-pocus that comprises the explanation. We will accept it because it is easier than trying to understand it for ourselves.
Still, what is missing is the “why?”
And it is that “why?” that is rock-solid evidence of the existence of the Supreme Being we call “God.”
It is all the evidence we need to realize that the amazing interaction of objects large and small through the power of gravity cannot be just “nature.” It can only be the result of intelligent design and the will and power of an almighty God.
It is also a hint of God’s grand design that we struggle to understand.
And perhaps our struggle is also part of that grand design.