laminin

[Brian Blankenship]

A pastor friend of mine from down the street put me onto this. I think its amazing!

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/laminin.asp.

[Dennis Bratcher]

A pastor friend of mine from down the street put me onto this. I think its amazing!

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/laminin.asp.

I certainly believe that God can be seen in nature. However, we have to keep in mind that most often we see God in the physical world because we already believe in God as Creator and Sustainer of the cosmos. Where a person of faith sees the grandeur of God, another sees complexes of mechanical and chemical forces interacting with energy. That makes such "proofs" of God less about the nature of the physical world and more about our own ability to express our Faith.

The cross-shaped structure is a schematic drawing not a representation of how the molecule actually looks (see below for examples of 1. a single molecule; 2. how the molecules appear in organisms).

In any case, the Colossians passage is not a statement about science or the physical world and cannot be made to be so. It is a statement about God revealed in Jesus who is the Christ:

1:15 He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 1:16 for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers--all things have been created through him and for him. 1:17 He himself is before all things, and in him [Jesus] all things hold together.
Note the next verses:

1:18 He [Jesus] is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. 1:19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 1:20 and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross. 1:21 And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 1:22 he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him--
Grace and Peace,

Dennis B.