God Of Science (Our Great God)

Rend Collective's kids' song credits God with the whole laboratory. He "started science and quantum physics," wrote "the law of gravity," and stands as the "smartest" scientist in history, with narwhals, armadillos and long-ago dinosaurs among his creations. The humor is deliberate, and it keeps the awe from turning stuffy.

The second verse brings creation close to home: "my atoms and all my organs," "every strand of DNA." God is cast as the artist and listeners as the canvas, "uniquely wonderfully made," which invites a dance "like stars at night." Then the bridge sprints through a rapid list, from apple juice and sunflowers to Jupiter, geckos, eyebrows and earlobes, and keeps circling back to "pandas and nostrils and trees."

Each section lands on the same sing-along line: "Our Great God of all things bright and beautiful," capped with "Thank you, God, for making me." Psalm 139 praises being fearfully and wonderfully made, Psalm 104 marvels at God's works made in wisdom, and Colossians 1 says all things were created through Christ.