EVEN many scientists would agree that the so-called book of nature leaves a reasonable mind with no doubt that there is a Designer, a Creator. Long ago the Christian apostle Paul wrote that God’s “invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship.” (Romans 1:20)
But the book of nature is not a complete revelation of God and of his will. It does not, for example, reveal the purpose of life. Thankfully, creation’s Author has revealed himself in another book—his inspired Word, the Bible.—2 Timothy 3:16.
Though not a science book, the Bible answers all the vital questions that the natural world does not. It answers one of the first questions most people ask when studying a brilliant piece of handiwork—Who made it? Regarding creation, note what the Bible says at Revelation 4:11: “You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.” Yes, the Great Designer is Jehovah God, and his name appears some 7,000 times in the original manuscripts of the Bible.
About 3,500 years before our scientific era, a man by the name of Job, obviously a keen observer of nature and a thinking person, associated Jehovah’s name with creation. Job said: “Ask, please, the domestic animals, and they will instruct you; also the winged creatures of the heavens, and they will tell you.
Or show your concern to the earth, and it will instruct you; and the fishes of the sea will declare it to you.” What do they all teach about creation? Job answers with a question: “Who among all these does not well know that the hand of Jehovah itself has done this?”—Job 12:7-9.
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