Easter and WIRED Magazine

Not your traditional Easter morning ritual – but I was up early and my new WIRED magazine was sitting there, so I picked it up.

I started with a great article on the Grid – you know, that system that brings the electrons and gas to your house so you can cook that egg and make that coffee in the morning. Clearly we need to change the incentives we have in our system so the owners and users of the system work together to get a better system that will work smarter, cost less, and be better for our earth.

But it was the next article that made the title of this post come to mind. The Brain, Revealed - a very interesting article on work that is being done to map the brain. It turns out the key to making this possible is more related to industrial operations than the science. Granted, the science is important, but without the system to robotise the process and the informatics to plumb the depths of the data, it couldn’t happen – at least not in this century.

But, it was one sentence in the article that made me once again know I have a Creator that is beyond imagination. “Such is the faith of scientists: Nature must always make sense.” Wow – I’m not sure I could have said it more clearly – OK, I’m sure the Bible has said it more clearly – but without coming out and quoting Scripture, the author of the article has made an important point that seems to fit well with our Easter celebration. Yes, faith is important, and what he calls Nature and what I’ll call God, must always make sense – and this is why I always come back to my Faith.

This isn’t the first time this has happened to me. Right after I became a Believer, in the early ’70s, I was taking a course at San Jose State University. It was called Existential Phenomenology. It was great, not because of what I learned from the professor (who by the way was also the author of the $50 book we had to use for the class), but because of what they couldn’t explain that I knew was explained by our Cretor. And I learned it one more time when I was at The Ohio State University (yes, a little known fact I don’t share often with my Michigan friends) working on a Doctorate – when I was taking my Philosophy of Science seminar and saw again that science made some very important assumptions that I saw were based on the Creator and they said were based on – well, they didn’t know what they were based on – they were just assumptions.

So, as strange as it may seem, I’m thankful yet again for my friends in the world of science who have pointed me to the Creator and to the Salvation He has provided through the death, burial, and ressurection of His Son – Jesus Christ.

P.S. I love my new Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook that was sitting next to me when this thought struck me. I’ve often been stymied when a thought comes to mind in the house and I would have to walk all the way back to the office to peck it out on the desktop. Now I can just pick up my tiny friend Asus and hatch these brilliant thoughts for you all to read. Isn’t that cool!

P.P.S. I love WIRED Magazine – highly recommend it. Its irreverant, edgy, and has great info about techy stuff, and, it’s got very well written articles about lots of things.