In his book Alone, Admiral Richard E. Byrd tells of an inspired conviction that came to him when facing grave danger in the Arctic. "... the night [was] being born—but with great peace," he writes. "Harmony, that was it! . . . the music of the spheres, perhaps. . . . The conviction came that . . . there must be purpose in the whole and that man was part of that whole .... It was a feeling . . . that went to the heart of man's despair and found it groundless. The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos." Alone (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938), p. 85;
Evidently, in his extreme need, this great explorer had glimpsed something of the divine cosmos, the "orderly and harmonious whole" (as a dictionary defines "cosmos") that constitutes God's creation.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," the Bible declares. "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. . . . And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."
Gen. 1:1, 3, 31; And an apostle affirms, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."
John 1:3;
