But what has He written lately?

(continued from “God the Author“)

Why has God–once such a prolific author–failed to publish anything worthy of note in the past, say, 1300 years?

Has he lost his touch? Has his sacred printer run out of divine toner? At a typical university God would have lost his tenure ages ago. But in the field of religion, the longer God waits, the more his words are revered.

Perhaps he has given us great works, but penned them under different names, or inspired others, rather than take the credit himself.

Works such as:

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

The Origin of Species

The Special and General Theories of Relativity

Is it possible he has chosen men such as Newton, Copernicus, Darwin, and Einstein to be his prophets, not because they had cool beards or were willing to off their sons for God, but because of their non-conformist thinking and their untiring search for truth. Perhaps these are values God cherishes.

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