To say that God created Nature, while it brings God and Nature into relation, also separates them. What makes and what is made must be two, no one. Thus the doctrine of Creation in one sense empties Nature of divinity...By emptying Nature of divinity - or, let us say, of divinities - you may fill her with Deity, for she is now the bearer of messages. There is a sense in which Nature-worship silences her - as if a child or a savage were so impressed with the postman's uniform that he omitted to take in the letters.
Another result of believing in Creation is to see Nature not as a mere datum but as an achievement. Some of the Psalmists are delighted with its mere solidity and permanence. God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal. 'All His works are faithful - He spake and it was done, He commanded and it stood fast.' Psalm 33:4,9.
C.S. Lewis
