An orderly creation
My real pastor was back, and it was lovely to have him back. He preached on the first of the two creation stories in Genesis. (mankind is created twice, once in more detail). He preached about science and nature and all the abilities we have to examine them as being a part of God's creation. It was all kind of early church and we are living our heaven and hell right here.
4 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day.
He talked about how we all create mythologies about how our world works, and how we currently have a great story in science (I'm SAYIN', cranky fundamentalist atheist in my Pullman panel), and we use these stories to understand our world and how we relate to it. How science can produce feelings of religious ecstasy by stimulating part of the brain, and whether that invalidated the feeling that some people have of God talking to them.
And then we sang this awesome hymn, God Who Stretched The Spangled Heavens. (link has music), which is all full of God and science.
Delicious!