‘For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse’ (Romans 1.20).
But how does creation reveal God? Richard Dawkins is insistent that the only things that the universe can reveal come from scientific observation. He ridicules Christians as mad, stupid or worse for their stubborn belief in God, despite what he insists is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Many Christians, it seems, consciously or unconsciously accept Dawkins’s claim that scientific observation should be able to demonstrate the existence of God, and have been enormously energetic in seeking scientific evidence for the existence of a Creator.
Seeing God?
However, it is far from clear that Scripture expects scientific endeavour to unambiguously reveal God. John Calvin observed that Scripture in several places describes creation’s witness to its Creator as available to all people and all cultures. For instance, Psalm 19 declares:
