The Divine Blueprint: How Science Reveals God’s Hand in Creation
When we open the Bible to Genesis 1, we see God’s first words echo across the void: “Let there be light.” But the Hebrew verbs there tell us so much more than just a simple “making.” The word Bara (בָּרָא, create) is used repeatedly in the creation account, and it’s a very special verb. Bara means “to create”, not just to form or make from existing stuff, but to bring something truly new into existence. It’s a divine action, only God’s verb. The universe wasn’t cobbled together from scraps; it was created out of nothing, by the One who speaks and it is.
Contrast that with the word Asah (עָשָׂה, make, do), which also appears in Genesis but means “to make” or “to do”. This is more about shaping, forming, or arranging. Think of it like a master carpenter building furniture, taking raw materials and fashioning them. God Bara when He brought the cosmos into being, and God Asah when He shaped the earth and life in it. The two words together reveal a Creator who both initiates existence and lovingly orders it.
Now, here’s where science and Scripture dance together beautifully. Psalm 19:1 says, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” The Hebrew word behind “declare” is Ra’ah (רָאָה, see, perceive, understand), which doesn’t just mean to see with the eyes but to perceive deeply, to understand and acknowledge what’s observed. God invites us to look, not with blind faith, but with eyes open wide, with the tools of science as well as the spirit of worship.
When scientists study DNA, those spiraling instructions inside every cell, they discover a complexity that screams design. It’s a language, a code, an intricate blueprint far beyond anything humans have invented. The fine-tuning of physical constants in the universe, the gravitational force, the speed of light, the electromagnetic force, all balanced perfectly to sustain life. That order and precision are the fingerprints of Bara, God’s creative act.
And here’s where the humor sneaks in: try explaining how all of this, the vast universe, life, consciousness, sprang from nothing without an intelligent designer. It’s like trying to build an IKEA chair without instructions, and after hours of struggling, you end up with something that looks more like a weirdly shaped bookshelf that can’t hold a thing. Scientists can try, bless their hearts, but the elegance of creation points us to the Creator.
So, the next time you look up at the stars, or marvel at the complexity inside a leaf, remember that you are seeing the divine blueprint. The Creator’s Bara and Asah at work, an invitation to perceive deeply with faith and reason, a call to worship not just with our hearts but with our minds.
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Now, let’s go deeper, full force, no holding back.
When we say Bara, “to create”, we’re not talking about a casual “Oh, I made a sandwich.” This verb only belongs to God (see Isaiah 45:7, where God says, “I am the LORD, who Bara (בָּרָא, creates) darkness and Bara (בָּרָא, creates) light; it signals creation that begins solely by My word.”). No wonder scientists are baffled by the origin of the universe. The Big Bang theory points to a singularity, an infinitesimally small, infinitely dense point where space, time, matter, and energy burst into existence. This aligns with Bara: creation out of nothing, not rearrangement of old stuff.
But what about order? Enter Asah, “to make, fashion, prepare”. God doesn’t just snap His fingers and leave chaos. He meticulously Asah the cosmos, like a master craftsman. And science uncovers this order everywhere we look.
The Hebrew word Chokmah (חָכְמָה, wisdom) is crucial here. Proverbs 3:19 says, “The LORD by wisdom (Chokmah) founded the earth; by understanding (Binah, בִּינָה, understanding) he established the heavens.” Science itself is the study of that wisdom God has embedded in creation.
Look at the natural laws, the gravitational constant, Planck’s constant, the speed of light, the electromagnetic force. These aren’t random. The slightest variation, even in the 15th decimal place, would make life impossible. Physicists call this “fine-tuning.” It’s as if the universe’s settings were dialed in perfectly. That’s Chokmah and Binah at work.
Now, the Bible encourages us to Ra’ah, to see deeply, not superficially. This word is far richer than “look.” It means to observe, discern, perceive, to gain insight. In Genesis, God says, “Let the earth bring forth…” and commands us to Ra’ah the works of His hands.
Science, then, is a God-ordained lens to Ra’ah His handiwork. Psalm 111:2 says, “Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.” The Hebrew word for “pondered” is Hagah (הָגָה, meditate, ponder, muse), which means to meditate deeply or mutter over something, as if chewing on the truths hidden in nature.
Genetics reveals an amazing code within each cell’s DNA. It’s a language of four letters, adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine, that combine into words, sentences, instructions. The Greek word Logos (λόγος, word, reason, plan) comes to mind here. Yeshua is called the Logos in John 1, the Word through whom all things were made.
Science is uncovering the Logos embedded in our very cells, a divine script, a perfect plan. Epigenetics even shows how environment influences gene expression, like a God-given system of adaptability and life.
From the macrocosm of galaxies swirling in majestic orbits to the microcosm of cells dividing precisely, science unveils the glory of God’s handiwork.
Even the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which says entropy (disorder) increases in isolated systems, makes sense only because God Asah the cosmos with a beginning point, a point of perfect order in the beginning (Tohu va-Bohu, תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, formless and void). The universe’s tendency toward disorder points us back to the Creator’s original act of Bara, bringing order out of nothing.
Humor me for a moment: try explaining the intricate functioning of a single cell, with its energy-producing mitochondria (the “power plants”), its protein-making ribosomes, and its DNA “library,” without an intelligent designer. It’s like finding a fully functioning computer in the desert with no user manual and insisting it assembled itself. Science is the study of God’s design, not a rival but a revealer.
The Apostle Paul, in Romans 1:20, tells us that God’s “invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” The Greek phrase for “have been clearly seen” is Phaneróō (φανερόω, make visible, manifest). Science is that God-ordained tool to make visible what was invisible, to bring the divine into clearer view.
So, when a scientist says, “I study the laws of nature,” they are, unwittingly or knowingly, tracing the fingerprints of YHWH, The Creator. The Bara is God’s bringing into existence; the Asah is His ordering and fashioning; the Ra’ah is our mandate to perceive deeply; and the Logos is the divine Word woven into creation itself, waiting for us to discover.
The universe is no random accident; it is a masterpiece. Science, rightly understood, is a hand extended to us by God, inviting us to explore His Chokmah (חָכְמָה, wisdom) and Binah (בִּינָה, understanding), His wisdom and understanding, written in the stars and in our very cells.
And yes, even with all this evidence, trying to explain the origin of life or the fine-tuning without God is like trying to assemble that IKEA chair blindfolded, without instructions, and then proudly showing off your creation that looks like a Picasso painting. God’s blueprint is clear, if we have the eyes to Ra’ah it.