BY ABRIANA CHILELLI
Associate Superintendent for
Academic Formation
The truth of
B I B LICAL WO R LDVI E W
I
n the 1960s, a boy named Stratford Caldecott
decided that he had discovered the secret of
the universe.
Stratford lived in London, and his father was a
book publisher. His parents' home was filled with
books, and Stratford read a lot. He was often sick
as a child, and bedridden, which meant that he
had time to read. So, he read science fiction and
fantasy novels, science and even philosophy —
well beyond his grade level, well beyond his read-
ing level and often well beyond his comprehen-
sion. But he read, and he discussed what he read
with his mother, and he read some more.
Their home was filled with ideas and conver-
sation, but without faith.
However, an autobiography of Caldecott in
the book The Path to Rome describes how when
he was 14, he discovered, he said, the thing he
called the "secret of the universe."
He found himself wondering whether the
universe was made up of more than atoms and
energy. At 14, he realized that the fact that he
asked the question — the idea that he wondered
at the mysteries of the universe, meant that
there had to be something beyond the mate-
rial universe itself. To look at matter from the
What it means
to have a Biblical
worldview
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