kind (Genesis 1:24). Nature was not lawless, yet it was incomplete. It was governed by God, yet it was incomplete. Something was missing, despite nature’s regularities. Man was the missing piece, for “there was not a man to till the ground” (Genesis 2:5b). Ours is a personal universe. God, a personal being, created the universe. It has its very being in terms of God and God’s comprehensive plan for the ages. Not a single fact in the universe exists apart from God, God’s plan, and God’s evaluation