Questions Without Answers

Human beings are naturally inquisitive. Of all the creatures that God created, we are the only ones on Earth who are capable of reason, logic and profundity of thought (Isaiah 1:18). In our long history, humanity has made many important discoveries and advanced his knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds, yet there are still some great mysteries, which elude all efforts to solve them.

In an article posted on lifeslittlemysteries.com, Natalie Wolchover made of list of seven questions for which science has not yet provided a satisfactory answer. One such mystery: “Why do cats purr?” It is known that cats produce an amazing range of vocalizations and there are logical explanations for almost all of them, but purring is yet to be understood. Cats purr while doing many different activities and it seems to serve no useful purpose at all. Evolutionary scientists can’t figure out why such a behavior would ever come about. Creationists tend not to worry about it.

Another unsolved mystery: “How do bicycles work?” Scientists have long suspected that gyroscopic motion, combined with “trailing” effects are what keeps bicycles travelling forward and upright, even when no one is steering them (“Look mom; no hands!”). But engineers who have studied the problem discovered that bicycles still work, even when they deliberately countered the gyroscopic and trailing effects. The supervisor of the experiment stated that we may never come to understand how the laws of physics apply to how bicycles work. Most ten-year olds are just glad that they do.

Another conundrum: “Why do people favor one hand over the other?” Biologists suspect that the neurological “wiring” in our brains causes us to favor either our right hands or our left. But why favor either hand, at all? The best evolutionary model would be for humans to be ambidextrous, but it is exceedingly rare for human beings to be just as comfortable with their left hands as with their right (which is why “switch hitters” are so valuable in baseball). Also, why are there so many more “righties” than “lefties?” Right handed people are no better off in the world than left handed people, so why are there not roughly equal numbers of both? Questions like this cause evolutionists to shrug their shoulders and bite their lips, but creationists don’t mind them so much (Psalm 139:14).

Other burning questions like, “Why does lightening happen?” or “Why are moths drawn to lights?” or “Why is yawning contagious?” and “What causes static electricity?” pose further puzzles for scientists, who shall grapple with them for years to come. These may seem like boring and mundane questions to ordinary people, but to people who can talk all day long about relativity and string theory and quantum mechanics, they are daunting mysteries, which defy explanation. The point of all this is that there are still many things that science has yet to explain. We think that we live in an age in which humanity has a perfect understanding of the world and how it works, but the truth is that our understanding is incomplete. Also, there is this question to consider: “How much of what we think we know now will be proven false in the future?”

In 1900, an esteemed British scientist, Lord Kelvin, famously said, “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more precise measurement.” Just a few decades after making that statement, Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity opened up new frontiers in the study of physics, which led to even more innovations in the field. Today, some scientists are predicting that the so-called “Unified Theory of Everything” is within our grasp and that, in time, our knowledge of the cosmos will be indisputably complete. Such bravado! Such self-assuredness!

The consensus of these same scientists is that, when our knowledge of the cosmos is complete, religion shall become extinct. But, knowledge of the world and how it works does not satisfy man’s need for God. The serpent promised Eve that if she and her husband would defy God, “ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). Just as Adam and Eve thought that they would be better off without God, so many today think that humanity would be better off without Him, too. But, the fruit of the Spirit is “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance” (Galatians 5:22-23).

All the knowledge in the universe cannot give our souls what they need. Science answers many of the most important questions of life; but not all of them. Only the Bible complete our knowledge.