"God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things."

As a child, and more so as an adult, I put my hand to many tasks each day. Daily I labor to make things: be it bread, or art, or knowledge. These created things are pretty neat. Adding flour, salt, oil, and water and getting a tasty loaf is amazing. Creating something pleasurable to look at takes skill that is incredible. Probing the universe for answers and then finding the Truth is also beyond belief. Why should something that comes from the ground be so tasty? Why should a few lines on a page offer enjoyment to look at? Why should the world around me offer up any secrets about how it works? The creations of Mankind are pretty mind boggling, and I am not the best example of the richness that our hands can produce. Look at the Mona Lisa, or almost any building in Dubai, or the Great Wall. What humans produce is amazing. We have stock exchanges that trade more money that is countable, we've walked on the moon, and we've seen galaxies over ten million light-years away. What we create is pretty awesome.

Yet, as amazing as all that is, we are still more amazing. All of our created things are less awesome than us. Our blood follows the courses laid out by our veins, our brains process information and allow us to think and act in ways unheard of in the rest of the animal kingdom, and what, other than an arm, grows stronger the more it is bent and forced? Once I eat food, I can forget about it, yet my body doesn't. It digests and processes the food, extracts the energy at a molecular level, and then transports that stored energy throughout the limits of my skin. All this without any conscious effort. Even if my bones break, they will naturally fuse back together. Imagine a sky scraper fusing its own girders upon an earthquake, it seems so far out there, but that's what our bodies do already. We are capable of bending and flexing our hands in ways without number, and if we stretch too far our bodies immediately let us know, so we can refrain from hurting ourselves. We are awesome. The things we make are infinity less awesome that us, its creators.

But wait, I write ahead of myself. We as people cannot create anything from nothing. This whole existence is even more awesome than us. The greatest mystery in the universe is that anything exists at all! Why should something exist rather than nothing? The greatest minds in science have told us merely that “first there was nothing, then it exploded". This non-sequitor is our scientific creation myth. A myth hugely useful in understanding the world around us today, but entirely unreplicateable, and therefore not very different in form from “Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light” (Genesis 1:3). The fact that an electron and proton attract is just as far out as if apples and oranges tried to gather in bushels to form equal amount. Why do electrons and protons do this? Science can only tell us how, and the why is left alone. It is amazing if something happens with a rhyme, but no reason. A cause (be it syntactical and rhyming or physical and particular) with no reason to be caused is a cause without a cause, and thus could never be caused!

What then created our raw materials? That from which we form so much incredible stuff with so much more incredible hands? Its creator must be infinitely more awesome than it, as we are infinitely more awesome than the jumbo jets we fly in. This creator must be infinitely more awesome than us, as we too are its creation.

This creator we call God.

Further Reading: God's speech to Job (Job Chapters 38 through 41)