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"Let The Beauty of Jehovah Our God Be Upon Us"
Beauty is inexplicable to the unbelieving. Those attempting to explain the origin of life by evolutionary processes and the genesis of the material universe by arbitrary cosmic explosions cannot account for aesthetics.
Of course, perceiving beauty in the opposite gender of the same species may well attract a mate for the purpose of sexual reproduction, and thus the propagation of the species, but that is the full extent of evolutionary justification for beauty. Beholding an orange and purple sunset for beauty’s sake makes no evolutionary sense. Watching puffy white clouds on a blue sky for the sake of their own loveliness is not justified by natural processes. Admiring fresh white snow on a green pine tree, valuing the colorful patterns of a tiger’s stripes, or appreciating the range of hue in a garden of oleander cannot be accounted for by the atheist. On the contrary, deriving pleasure from the hide of a beast that could easily slay the observer, taking delight in a meteorological phenomenon that could freeze the admirer, or highly esteeming flora that provide no nutritional sustenance - but would poison the eater, all strikingly violate any naturalistic explanations.
If evolution explained existence, the world would be a very drab and boring place. Only a Creator who transcends nature and values beauty for its own sake could imbue those made in His image with an appreciation for such things. “Let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us” (Psalm 90:17).
Genesis 1:31
31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
