Creation's Revealing Your Majesty

There was one song that was going through my head as I visited Phillip Island: Indescribable by Chris Tomlin.

I would upload a YouTube video of it so you guys can take a listen, but the versions on YouTube are mostly of the song accompanied with amateurish visual editing. You know, the kind where the person uploading the video just chucks in some animated text on top of generic pictures of nature he/she stole from other photographers on the web. And I, being the elitist media student that I am, am principally against such work.

(Edit: Here's something that can play the song without lousy video editing.)

Find more Chris Tomlin albums at Myspace Music

But do give the song a listen if you haven't already heard it. It fully captured what I was feeling for most of the day at Phillip Island. The island is such an incredibly beautiful place. The Nobbies (funny name, I know) in particular really made an impact. The scenery was simply spectacular. The cool breeze messing up my hair, the sun shining its radiance on hills of light green, the blue ocean crashing its waves upon jet black rocks... the feeling I got as I took all this in was really quite indescribable.

(The word "indescribable" is such an ironic word, isn't it? Y'know, since it's describing something indescribable by calling it "indescribable".)

When I see nature at its most beautiful, I just can't help but to think that the earth could not have been an accident. How could it be? Mountains, oceans, green pastures, animals and plants both of amazing simplicity and complexity...

I once read that the angle that earth is tilted at is of vital importance to all life on it; so much so that if it tilted only slightly more or less of an angle, its orbit would change, taking it either too close or too far from the sun, wiping out everything on the planet.

Of course, I'm slightly lazy to check up the details of this right now, but if it is really true... well it's amazing, isn't it, that whole ecosystems could depend on so minute a detail? Could it be an accident? From a perfectly theoretical, mathematical sense, I suppose so. But to me, I guess it's just rather hard to fathom.

Goodnight World!