Living Proof There is a Creator
Freeman Dyson once wrote, “The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming.”
It’s a powerful thought as I watch an Asian child play the piano in a hall. She presses a key and hears a pure note ring out — an A minor.
She presses another, and another, until she discovers that every key, no matter how far apart, follows a perfect pattern.
Soon she manages to play Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
She has discovered something: How come these notes should sound so beautifully together?
Years pass, and the child becomes a composer. The more she understands harmony and rhythm, the more she realises that music wasn’t something she had invented; it had been waiting for her to discover it. The laws of sound were not made by her; she had only learned their language. Like objective morality, it was there all the time.
As she grows, her curiosity widens, from the scales on the piano to the elements in nature. She gazes at the periodic table and sees another kind of music: the ordered dance of protons, electrons, and neutrons. Each element, like a note, has its place in a grand composition.
Just as music depends on harmony, so creation depends on mathematical order — the rhythm of planets, the symmetry of petals, the ratio that shapes a shell or a galaxy.
Mathematics works because it describes a universe already composed with intention.
We are like the child at the piano: discovering, not designing — playing, not creating — the music that was there long before us.
“His eternal power and divinity, have been plainly discernible through things which he has made and which are commonly seen and known… They knew all the time that there is a God, yet they refused to acknowledge him as such, or to thank him for what he is or does. “
Romans 1:20 J.B. Phillips Translation
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