Excerpt from Ben Greenfield's YouTube video "The Magic of Music" (Mar 15, 2023). The speaker asserts that Earth's atmosphere is optimally designed for sound transmission, that human anatomy (vocal cords, hands, bodies) was designed for musical worship, and that the universe can be understood as 'one song'—linking cosmology and theology through music.
Did you know that the atmosphere of the Earth is created in such a way to produce ideal conditions for the transmission and propagation of sound waves? This means that God literally created the planet as the optimal medium for the transition and transmission of sound. It also means that our very planet is a perfect environment to enable us human creatures to be able to communicate very effectively with one another, and also to worship our Creator using speech and music and percussion and strings and other methods of sound wave generation. Not only that, but similar to the planetary design, our biological bodies were designed to praise God too. That's why he gave us vocal cords to sing, hands for percussion, and bodies to dance. Furthermore, the word universe can be translated literally as one song, meaning the entire world occurred as a direct result of the song to the Lord.
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