Psalm 104:14-15 –
(14) You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth—(15) wine to make them glad, olive oil to soothe their skin, and bread to give them strength
This Psalm starts the right way by saying “let all that I am praise the Lord!” Can any of us really say this? Think about “back then” when there were very few explanations for why or how for most everything. The people just laid their faith in God for the root. Sure it’s hard to explain why a tsunami wipes out a city or a tornado destroys a town when you think of God being loving. But today we can predict both events with science. We can explain how they happen and quickly remove God from the equation.
This verse is one of those “science vs. God” reflections. Sure all this can be explained to the “how” but rarely does the science go past that. Think about grass, it draws minerals and nutrients from the soil. Then the grass is eaten by livestock which digests those minerals and absorbs them into their meat, which we eat and gain valuable proteins and nutrients. We can get into the micro-biology of this process and explain exactly how it happens. Yet we don’t have a way to prove how the grass or the cow, with their complex stomach to digest the grass, actually came to being.
Sure we have “theories” that can neither be proven nor disproven, yet since they come from science they are laid out as fact. When people ask “how” and God gives them an explanation they can understand, where today science poo-poo’s it as fantasy. Ironically, science is starting to prove God’s existence in a way although the science community will not admit it. Think about the Hebraic dietary laws and how science is able to prove that the foods laid out in the “law” are the best for one’s peak health and performance. Or look at the “Cambrian Explosion” in the fossil record which could prove creationism.
How I got here I do not know, since when I first decided to use this verse I was going to talk about how drinking wine was ok according to the Bible. Somehow I wandered into a science discussion. Oh well, I believe God directs this writing more than I do … cheers!!