The Theories of Origins: the Mice in the Piano

The illustration of The Mice Who Lived In A Piano provides us an example of the futility of man's theories in regard to creation. The creation of the world was a supernatural act that cannot be explained by our five senses. Creation cannot be explained by our finite knowledge. God is the source and the possessor of infinite knowledge. Man's knowledge is the knowledge that God has revealed to mankind. The unrevealed knowledge of God is the great mystery of God. The story below, The Mice Who Lived In a Piano, tells us the challenges of trying to explain something when you only have half the facts.

Creator, Scoffers: Theories of Origins

Imagine a family of mice who lived all their lives in a large piano. To them in their piano-world came the music of the instrument, filling all the dark spaces with sound and harmony. At first the mice were impressed by it. They drew comfort and wonder from the thought that there was Someone who made the music -- though invisible to them -- above, yet close to them. They loved to think of the Great Player whom they could not see. Then one day a daring mouse climbed up part of the piano and returned very thoughtful. He had found how the music was made. Wires were the secret; tightly stretched wires of graduated lengths which trembled and vibrated. They must revise all their old beliefs: none but the most conservative could any longer believe in the Unseen Player. Later, another explorer carried the explanation further. Hammers were now the secret, numbers of hammers dancing and leaping on the wires. This was a more complicated theory, but it all went to show that they lived in a purely mechanical and mathematical world. The Unseen Player came to be thought of as a myth. But the pianist continued to play.

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