Creation-science understanding of God is quite different than the God Job deals with in the whirlwind. For Job, when he comes face to face with a brutal cosmos, so much of it is cloaked in mystery when it comes to his understanding of God. For creation-science, not only are humans responsible for moral evil but for natural evil and death as well. What's worse, God is angry with us for suppressing the truth of a literal six day creation. Evolution is therefore the cause of much of the evil we see in the world today.
Despite problems people have with evolution, creation-science has to deal with animal suffering and the brutality of the cosmos that happens today. Blaming it all on us humans doesn't adequately deal with scripture much less the whole history of reality and science as we know it. Job looks at the brutality of the universe but still sees God in it. Can it be the creation-science view of God is too small and their view of the universe is not big enough either?
We need a mystical encounter with God that helps us see God in the cosmos and not just in humans who are now fallen. We need to see beyond ourselves and even this world to the whole glorious universe that God brilliantly lights up in the night sky. God is not a predictable local deity but an unpredictable cosmic God. Maybe only in the light of our own spiritual poverty, weaknesses and inability to control the universe around us that we walk straight into the God who is both hidden and everywhere in the cosmos.
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