I recently read a chapter in a science book which I want to draw from to describe something about God’s creativity.
When God created life on earth, He created what scientists call a biosphere. The outermost layer of the earth, along with the surface and the atmosphere, form a sphere filled with organic things like people and trees and chipmunks. That biosphere is completely contained by what we regular people call outer space.
The idea proposed in the book that I read was that our biosphere is always becoming something new and that it is becoming increasingly unique over time. More specifically, the proposal is that the diversity of things that can happen next increases, on average, as fast as it can. One can illustrate it this way: when you are blowing up a balloon, the next moment always holds the possibility for the balloon to become more than it could have become the previous moment. One might say that God is blowing up a balloon as fast as He can!
We know that God is creative. We know that He created the universe in six days. But He didn’t create a universe which stays the same over time. In particular, He seems to have created a biosphere for living things which, over time, has more possibilities for what it can become. Our biosphere contains a sort of explosion of life.
What does this describe about God’s creativity? Just this: His creativity is expressed in His Creation as greatly, or more greatly, than we can imagine. In personal terms: We can never be sure that we have imagined everything that God could possibly do next in our lives.
Ephesians 3:20 says that God is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine. Well, that truth is evident in His Creation, too, and scientists may one day prove it!
