Video Review on “The Secret Code of Creation”

Do you enjoy math? Most people don’t. When I tutor high-school students, the subjects they typically need help in are math, science, or English. Math is probably a tough topic for many people because it is abstract, yet so interwoven in the way the universe functions that we can’t live without it. Personally, I’ve been fascinated with math since I started kindergarten (which likely had to do with having a very good teacher who made math fun and practical) so I got pretty excited when I saw that one of my favorite creation scientists released a video on math and creation.

If you don’t like math, you need to watch this video because it will change the way you see math. The video, The Secret Code of Creation, put out by Dr. Jason Lisle through the Institute for Creation Research (you can find the video at ICR’s website), was breath-taking! You don’t have to know upper-level math to understand this video because Dr. Lisle focuses on fractals, which naturally create these amazing, complex structures in mathematics. This video shows the beauty and depth of mathematics in a visual and memorable way.

However, what impressed me most about this video was the way Dr. Lisle shows how the nature of math reflects the character of God. He explains how math does not have any reasonable explanation within the evolutionary worldview but makes perfect sense when we believe in the Biblical Creator. Math is not something that humans have invented; rather, we have merely been discovering it. One thing Dr. Lisle stresses is that math is abstract, yet the natural world follows these abstract laws.

Watching this video helped me to appreciate the true wonder and miracle that math really is. Most importantly, this video helped me focus more on the glory and majesty of our creator. Even if you are not a math person, I highly recommend this video by Dr. Lisle.