God and Nature Summer 2023
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By Carlos Pinkham.
Once there was a foolish drop of water. This drop of water was quite proud of himself. "After all," he reasoned, "I have drawn the molecules on my surface so tightly together by cleverly using Van der Waal’s forces and hydrogen bonds that they create a film around me that presents a formidable barrier and maintains me as a drop. I'm well protected. I can go anywhere." Then, one day, this drop found himself in the presence of a heat source more intense than anything he could imagine… and he was vaporized instantly.
At about the same time, there was another drop of water. Now, this drop was wise. She reasoned, "Sure, I have this fine skin of closely packed molecules, but I know it's not enough. I need to be surrounded by a perfect reflector. One day she found that glorious reflector and at once enveloped herself with it. Sometime later this drop also found herself in the presence of the same intense heat source that vaporized the foolish drop. But the reflector wrapped around the wise drop returned every ray of heat to the source... and the wise drop lived!
Inspired by Daniel 3, and John 1:4-9, and the one exception to the artistic principle, “Reflected light is never as strong as its source light” (1,2).
REFERENCES
1) Bill Martin’s Guide to Drawing, “Reflected Light,”
2) Raybon, Patricia, “Reflecting Christ’s Light,” Our Daily Bread, 16 February 2023
Carlos Pinkham received a PhD in evolution from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, in 1971. He entered the Army's environmental program at its inception and retired as Colonel in 2003. In 1982 he joined the Biology Department of Norwich University, Northfield, VT, as a Visiting Professor, where he taught environmental biology and human anatomy and physiology. In 2009 he retired as Professor Emeritus of Biology. He is the author of The Trouble with the Trinity, A Layman-to-Layman Study of the Biblical Evidence for the Triune Nature of God. (Covenant 2019)
Once there was a foolish drop of water. This drop of water was quite proud of himself. "After all," he reasoned, "I have drawn the molecules on my surface so tightly together by cleverly using Van der Waal’s forces and hydrogen bonds that they create a film around me that presents a formidable barrier and maintains me as a drop. I'm well protected. I can go anywhere." Then, one day, this drop found himself in the presence of a heat source more intense than anything he could imagine… and he was vaporized instantly.
At about the same time, there was another drop of water. Now, this drop was wise. She reasoned, "Sure, I have this fine skin of closely packed molecules, but I know it's not enough. I need to be surrounded by a perfect reflector. One day she found that glorious reflector and at once enveloped herself with it. Sometime later this drop also found herself in the presence of the same intense heat source that vaporized the foolish drop. But the reflector wrapped around the wise drop returned every ray of heat to the source... and the wise drop lived!
Inspired by Daniel 3, and John 1:4-9, and the one exception to the artistic principle, “Reflected light is never as strong as its source light” (1,2).
REFERENCES
1) Bill Martin’s Guide to Drawing, “Reflected Light,”
2) Raybon, Patricia, “Reflecting Christ’s Light,” Our Daily Bread, 16 February 2023
Carlos Pinkham received a PhD in evolution from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, in 1971. He entered the Army's environmental program at its inception and retired as Colonel in 2003. In 1982 he joined the Biology Department of Norwich University, Northfield, VT, as a Visiting Professor, where he taught environmental biology and human anatomy and physiology. In 2009 he retired as Professor Emeritus of Biology. He is the author of The Trouble with the Trinity, A Layman-to-Layman Study of the Biblical Evidence for the Triune Nature of God. (Covenant 2019)