Roman 8:19-21
New International Version
The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Markets & Morality, Volume 5, Number 1 (pp 91-92), 2002
God has planted in human beings the impulse to explore and develop the potentials of the natural world; and beyond planting in us the impulse, God has granted us the right to do so, provided that we do it to the end that human beings may flourish — and that the “glory” of the Creator may be ever more fully revealed...
Comment: (One)
mans quest for knowledge
An unusual insight from that passage… I think of God’s challenge to Job in the last three chapters of the book as a more apt reference on how God has given man a world to explore and understand which is his great purpose for work.