Human technology, when rightly considered, does not lead us away from God but presses us inexorably toward Him, awakening gratitude, reverence, and awe at the multi-layered wisdom embedded in creation. Something as ordinary as textiles—wool twisted into thread, flax processed into linen, cotton spun and woven—quietly reveals that man does not create in the absolute sense, but merely discovers and develops what God has already hidden within the fabric of physical reality. Scripture proclaim and nature affirms a world, not as chaotic, but as ordered, intelligible, and fruitful. The earth yields materials that respond predictably to human labor because they were designed to do so. Wool felts and spins, flax yields linen, and cotton clings and twists, because God decreed that fibers interlock under tension. Man’s role is to exercise dominion—to cultivate, name, steward, and develop what God has made. As Samuel FB Morris, inventor of the telegraph exclaimed, “What hath God wrought!”
This insight extends far beyond looms and spindles. Every technological achievement presupposes a universe governed by consistent laws and minds capable of understanding them. Well, the college professor and student asked for proof of God‘s existence, the iPhone in their pockets, the clothes on their backs, and the logic, reason and language that enables them to communicate, all testify to an Intelligent Creator of an intelligent cosmos. These are not neutral facts. As Cornelius Van Til famously observed, the unbeliever can count, but cannot account for why he can count. Materialism, pantheism, and atheism borrow the tools of reason, logic, induction, and morality, but cannot justify them. A universe reduced to matter in motion has no reason to produce truth, no obligation to honor logic. But the unbeliever lives as though the world is meaningful, rational, and trustworthy, because it is. The Christian claim is not merely that some evidence points to God, but that without God, there can be no evidence, no proof, no knowledge whatsoever. This is the impossibility of the contrary: remove the God of Scripture, and the very act of asking for proof collapses.
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