There is nothing new under the sun.
—Ecclesiastes 1:9
Automobiles, airplanes, telephones, and personal computers bring to mind the names of Henry Ford, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Alexander Graham Bell, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Medical advances are stunning: vaccines, drugs, surgical procedures, gene sequencing—the list is long and getting longer by the day.
We justifiably praise those who engineer such developments, but let’s not forget the source.
C.S. Lewis wrote: “ ‘Creation’ as applied to human authorship seems to me to be a misleading term. We [only] rearrange elements [God] has provided . . . combining elements made by Him.”
Solomon said: “There is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, ‘Look! This is something new’? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time” (Eccl 1:9–10).
God creates. Humans only combine the pieces.