(excerpt from Jonathan Fisk's "Echo") > When we look out at the disastrous course of the world, it is only natural to find fear. In our fear, our first reaction is to turn our trust to politics, education, science, medicine, or any number of options that promise to fix the current plight. Most of these things are good parts of the created order. But when we make them our hope, we turn their good into our evil, treating creation as if it were the Creator. No sooner does this happen than these same idols we've built begin to exhibit their weaknesses. They are not strong enough to create good on their own, and so they begin to break under the strain of our misplaced faith. When this happens, ironically, we do not blame our misplaced trust. > Instead, we blame God. "*Where is God in all this evil?*" we ask, casting about for something else to sink our trust into. We repeat the age-old choice of Adam to believe that it is up to us to surpass the world we've been given, to build a better future, to restore paradise, to save the world.