The Wilful Sunflower

I was still brooding about yesterday’s incident with the unknown message-leaver. Then this morning, I had another message, from a man named Russ:

Don't worry about (that person)... The only people who think religious people are mentally deficient are those who are so profoundly ignorant of intellectual history as to be pitiable.

It’s true that many of the world's greatest thinkers were Christians. Some were philosophers, poets, political leaders, musical composers, painters and sculptors, or sceintists. Here's a short list.

Also, many major fields of science were founded by Bible-believing Christians. Read about some of them here; more here – for good measure. :)

Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), an American Naval officer and a Christian, believed that when Psalm 8:8 in the Bible talked about "paths in the seas", there must therefore be paths in the seas. He discovered the prevailing currents of the world's oceans and charted them, confirming that the sea did indeed have paths, just as spoken of in the Bible. He became the founder of oceanography, and his system of recording the oceanographic data of naval vessels and merchant marine ships was thereafter adopted world-wide.

I always think how completely awesome that is. One little line in the Bible changed his whole life. One innocuous line that most of us would have glossed over and totally missed, or dismissed as "symbolic language".

God speaks in unexpected places. And unexpected ways.