Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

In the Bible’s creation narrative, an immediate distinction is made between matter and life. Neither atoms nor molecules nor chemicals they form have life in themselves, yet they compose bodies that are vibrantly and consciously alive. What is life? This is a mystery that science has been unable to solve. Having said that God formed the human body and “every living creature . . . out of the ground,” the Bible declares of Adam, “God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”