Biologists, business people, builders, everyone depends on it.
Why we depend on ORDER.
Watch our 2 minute video (or read the text below).
Genesis gives us the basis for our ordered world
and the reason for how our world works best.
Our dependence upon an ordered world begins with The Orderer.
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FULL TEXT
No one wants chaos. Except The Joker. In Christopher Nolan’s brilliant movie, The Dark Knight Batman meets his nemesis, the Joker. Joker’s view of life is well summarized by Bruce Wayne’s faithful steward, Alfred. He says, “Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
Our only alternative to Joker’s chaos is order.
What do stop signs, maps, clocks, refrigerators, cars, schools, and space shuttles all have in common? Each could not exist without order. In fact, everything and everyone depends on order. Something as simple as sunup and sundown orders our lives. Why is order so important? Without a stable, ordered, structured universe we would live in chaos.
From a Christian standpoint, order derives from the one who orders, the God of the Bible. Because God has created and sustains all things, there is no separation between sacred and secular. In fact, Christian thinkers contend that everything is sacred, it belongs to and is ordered by God.
We find an ordered world in Genesis one. There is no chaos. The days of creation and all of creation is ordered. What does order make possible? The carpenter builds buildings mirroring the order, the structure of creation. The biologist can discover the mysteries of life because the Creator has ordered life. The businessperson can create ordered, financial success. The list is endless.
the biologist has observations to make,
the chemist has consequences to expect,
the physician has diagnoses to follow,
the geologist has patterns to pursue,
the meteorologist has models to predict.
We cheer when Batman overcomes the Joker’s chaos because we expect and enjoy order.
For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, President of the Comenius Institute, personally seeking Truth wherever it’s found.
[This Truth in Two was reshot for green screen but was first published 5 June 2018 here: https://warpandwoof.org/order-v-chaos-2-min-video-text/ ]