He is not shamed of Gospel, the message about Jesus Christ he is preaching - and indeed, the message changed Rome, the eternal city, forever and it became what it is today: the centre of Christianity.
He is not shamed of God and says that what can be known about God is manifest for He Himself has shown it to the humans.
What everyone can learn about God, what is so obvious that those who do not worship have nothing to defend themselves?
"For from the creation of the world the invisible things of Him are clearly seen, being understood through the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse."
Romans 1:20
Democritus and atomic theory
Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmokritos, "chosen of the people") (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace, Greece. He was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher and pupil of Leucippus, who formulated an atomic theory for the cosmos.
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Random chance is fundamental principle in the amazing natural philosophy developed by Leucippus and Democritus simply by deep thinking and without any experimentally gained knowledge of the structure of matter. Those undivided things, atoms, run around in some space hitting each other randomly and thus creating lumps that give matter all its properties, such as hardness or softness, colour or taste.
We might call those "lumps" molecules.
Atom - manifest work of God
Modern nuclear sciences have demonstrated that while Democritus had it right in principle - and this is no small feat for a 4th century BC thinker - there is nothing random in the inner structure of atoms and their nuclei nor in the way molecules are built.
Exact mathematics so bizarre that new ways of thinking with colours had to be developed to deal with it rule the orbits and numbers of electrons around the positive nucleus and the strong and weak and other forces inside the nucleus.
If it can be figured out by thinking it is quite obvious that it may have been made by someone good in mathematics and deep thinking.
Those who deny this have no excuse for not worshipping Him.
Molecular biology
The same obvious wisdom of God is visible in molecular biology.
No!
This is not apologetics or a vain attempt to prove that God exists as shown in the workings of living things on molecular level!
Far from that.
This is just a note in the spirit of Saint Paul that those who deny the divine wisdom in molecular biology have no excuse for not worshipping Him.
No shortcuts to knowledge
Jewish, Christian or Moslem believers in the One God have no shortcut to knowledge because of their faith. Pagan Leupiccus and Democritus showed such an ability of gaining knowledge by thinking that it is almost unparalleled among the humans.
The difference is still important - a believer praises Lord for His works and does not allow anything take His place as some sort of anonymous projection of God into the properties of matter, atoms, molecules and life.
For example, the materialistic atheism of Democritus and his students.
Glorify God!
For when they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God, nor were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 1:21
The purpose of this blog is to do the opposite from the foolish Romans: to glorify God and to be thankful!
As a non-professional I am still curious about life and fascinated by the enormous advances taken in life sciences. This blog is a personal journey to selected subjects and you, the reader, are invited to join me in prayers in this journey to Molecular Biology; feel free to argue for or against the facts and ideas presented here to enrich the discussion on God's wonders!
Sola Dei Gloria!
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