We go to our 9:00 a.m. classes with our textbooks and laptops bearing much too much weight on our backs and bags under our eyes that make it seem as if we haven't had a wink of sleep in the past week. We repeatedly perform study "power hours," create Quizlets, and read through PowerPoints like madmen in an effort to ace the next exam.
But...
Do we truly know what we are studying? Do we understand just how intricate life and its processes are? How insanely particular the chemical reactions are that take place in our bodies? How necessary each organelle in a cell is for sustaining life, or how detailed each function of each organelle is? Do we understand that these processes cannot simply be the result of a "big bang" or happenstance?
There is a God, and I think that a student who studies the sciences of life has such an advantage over anyone else when it comes to witnessing God's divine, intricate nature.
A cell has a diameter of approximately seven micrometers. An atom is roughly one million times smaller than a grain of sand. Yet, these tiny components are vital to life, making them the essential building blocks of life. Who can even begin to imagine the intricate detailing required to sustain life based upon something that the human eye can't even see?
In Intro to Biology, we spend a massive amount of time on the details of what makes life possible, and it was here that I witnessed God's insanely vast imagination. From learning about the huge processes that take place during cellular respiration in a single organelle, to the functions that interweave between the systems within a cell, my view on the human body and the processes which occur inside of it has become directly connected to the beauty of God.
I'm not sure any other interest can witness God's handiwork quite like that of the sciences, and for that, I am grateful to persevere in what God's placed me in this semester. He has me in these classes so that I will see just how amazing He is, and how much of His work is in the living things of this world.
