{"id":262,"date":"2015-09-21T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-08-17T21:08:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T02:08:02","slug":"science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html","title":{"rendered":"Science and Scripture Meet in Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2015\/08\/Rainbow-e1438824236886.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-263 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/388\/2015\/08\/Rainbow-e1438824236886-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/pre>\n<p>Sometimes it is easier to handle the rain and storms of life when\u00a0a rainbow graces the sky in the midst of the storm. I love how with rainbows there is both a scientific basis and a scriptural basis. Rainbows can speak to the scientist and the artist. So many things in nature can do the same.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the mixture of sun and water and all the elements but lining up correctly to create the rainbow. There is also the promise of God&#8217;s love is shown through a rainbow all the way back to the time of the great flood and promised to Noah. It&#8217;s nature that God created that combines to make such beauty and a reminder of peace and calm that can come even in the most unruly of times.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you see a rainbow, thank God for his everlasting promise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is easier to handle the rain and storms of life when\u00a0a rainbow graces the sky in the midst of the storm. I love how with rainbows there is both a scientific basis and a scriptural basis. Rainbows can speak to the scientist and the artist. So many things in nature can do the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Science and Scripture Meet in Rainbows - Through the Lens of Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Science and Scripture Meet in Rainbows - Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sometimes it is easier to handle the rain and storms of life when\u00a0a rainbow graces the sky in the midst of the storm. I love how with rainbows there is both a scientific basis and a scriptural basis. Rainbows can speak to the scientist and the artist. So many things in nature can do the&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Through the Lens of Faith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-09-21T14:00:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-08-18T02:08:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2015\/08\/Rainbow-e1438824236886-225x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eelliott\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Science and Scripture Meet in Rainbows - Through the Lens of Faith","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Science and Scripture Meet in Rainbows - Through the Lens of Faith","og_description":"Sometimes it is easier to handle the rain and storms of life when\u00a0a rainbow graces the sky in the midst of the storm. I love how with rainbows there is both a scientific basis and a scriptural basis. Rainbows can speak to the scientist and the artist. So many things in nature can do the&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html","og_site_name":"Through the Lens of Faith","article_published_time":"2015-09-21T14:00:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-08-18T02:08:02+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2015\/08\/Rainbow-e1438824236886-225x300.jpg"}],"author":"eelliott","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html","name":"Science and Scripture Meet in Rainbows - Through the Lens of Faith","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2015\/08\/Rainbow-e1438824236886-225x300.jpg","datePublished":"2015-09-21T14:00:09+00:00","dateModified":"2015-08-18T02:08:02+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/#\/schema\/person\/3a91f7335d342e05f30c3f30934c63b2"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2015\/08\/Rainbow-e1438824236886-225x300.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/files\/2015\/08\/Rainbow-e1438824236886-225x300.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2015\/09\/science-and-scripture-meet-in-rainbows.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Science and Scripture Meet in Rainbows"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/","name":"Through the Lens of Faith","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Elizabeth Elliott","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/#\/schema\/person\/3a91f7335d342e05f30c3f30934c63b2","name":"eelliott","description":"Elizabeth Elliott is a staff writer at the Arlington Catholic Herald and a freelance writer. She majored in music and journalism at Creighton University. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Creighton University. For over 20 years she has played flute for church-related events. She has written for America Magazine, Busted Halo and several other publications.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/author\/eelliott"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}