Opus 2024-356: Is God a Nitpicker?

I’m still on the porch.  I’m still looking at oak trees.  I’m wondering just how God is involved in the formation of these trees.  I have about six trees close enough to notice details on and it’s obvious that you can’t find more than a couple inches that might be the same on any two trees.  I’m not even sure you could find that.

Now comes my question.  Does God oversee and direct every single cell that forms in these trees?  Does He get out that device we used to have in my drafting class that was called the French curve and carefully craft every bend?  Or is there some process that God has put in place that allows random chance in the formation of oak tree trunks?  And what does that say in regard to human beings?

I can go either way on this.  My God is big enough that He could be directing the twists and turns of every leaf that falls off the tree.  He could be directing the formation of each cell and the location of each little bit of mitochondria that is found in it.  He is that big.  Forgive me for the smallness of the word big.  At the same time He’s also big enough to set up random choices and allow them to run.

I tend to lean toward the random choice side of things because I believe in free will.  I believe that is part of being made in the image of God.

You can go for being a robot if you want.  It doesn’t make sense to me.  I don’t understand it.  But then I don’t claim to understand God either.

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