Beauty Without God

I had a response to my last post about the beauty of the world, and how not having a God makes them any less amazing. When you look at some astounding like the Grand Canyon and say, "God is quite the artist." If you look at it without God and say, "Wow, that is amazing how nature can create something so beautiful and grand as the Grand Canyon." Just because we know it was years of erosion that created the grand canyon, doesn't make it any less of a marvel.

In Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins, which is a book I would suggest reading if you want to know more, He uses the rainbow as an example. If you see a rainbow and say God put it there, you only think of the rainbow. Since we have learned how a rainbow works and why they appear, it is even more brilliant to see. Millions of droplets of water refracting light, and sending one very small strip of the color spectrum to our eye. Another droplet above that sends another, and above that another. Next to those even more. Millions of times. As the rain drops fall they send a different wavelength our eyes perceive as a different color. So you don't see one rainbow, you are actually seeing millions of rainbows. If you have someone standing next to you, they are seeing a completely different set of millions of rainbows, because they are looking from a different angle.

The life outside that you see just from staring out your windows. The more you know about it, and the more science tell us, the more amazing it is too. Looking out my window now I can see, grass, a couple trees, some rocks, and a squirrel searching for nuts. I could see those and say God put those there. I know they came from seeds that people more than likely planted. But thinking of the millions upon millions of cells working together to keep the tree alive is amazing. Hundreds of thousands of generations of slight changes and adaptation. The wonder that it has happened is mind-blowing. The photosynthesis process and just understanding what goes on in plants makes looking at any tree creates just a respect to how everything came to be.

Just because science isn't supernatural, doesn't make it any less wondrous. Natures wonder and beauty is the reason people become scientists. We may not look at anything and wonder who made it, but it is the same feeling of not knowing, when you think how does it work. Beauty is not lost without God, if anything God just ruins it by covering the wonder.