The great God that formed all things both rewards the fool, and rewards transgressors.
Some people have suggested that the famous evolutionist Charles Darwin was a deist of sorts. He could have been satisfied with a distant god who created a formless mass of matter and energy, but Darwin didn’t want the God whose hands formed creation. By the 19th century, many Europeans and Americans agreed with him. Intuitively, people understand that a god who did not form every creature and every valley with his own hands would distance himself from the universe. Sure, he may have tossed a few planets in a solar system deep in the recesses of the Milky Way Galaxy, but then he forgot where he put them! According to these deistic thinkers, the various species of life forms develop without divine intervention by chance evolutionary processes. The idea that God’s hand is providentially active in every birth and in every catastrophe is reprehensible to the naturalistic evolutionist. If God’s hand is involved in the tiny details of every creature’s life, then of course He is interested in the actions of that creature. Indeed, that is what Jesus meant when He told His disciples that the heavenly Father is vitally interested in every sparrow that falls to the ground (Matt. 10:29). While the sparrow is amoral and unable to sin against God, that is not the way it is for human beings. Men are moral creatures, and they know they are moral because they talk about morals all the time. If, therefore, the actions of men are moral and God is vitally interested in their actions even more than those of the sparrow, then there will be a good many rebel sinners in serious trouble. And this is exactly what Charles Darwin wanted to avoid. So the entire scheme of evolution served as a “scientific” apologetic for deism. Assuming that God was uninvolved in the evolution of the creatures, then man must have appeared on the scene by random cause-and-effect processes.
In this verse we read that the great God formed all things and He did it by the Word of His power (Ps. 33:9; Heb. 1:3). His hands carefully formed every creature just as a potter deliberately, carefully works a piece of clay into something beautiful. There are no accidents in God’s world. Therefore, we can be sure that nothing and nobody will escape His all-seeing eyes. Our ethical accountability is directly tied to God’s absolute sovereign, providential hand on history. If you remove God’s hands from history, you will create a world where He is less involved in the ethical doings of His creatures. This is precisely what Charles Darwin and other philosophers and scientists have been doing for the last two hundred years. Though fools and transgressors may “get away” with foolishness and injustice, there is a God who will bring every single action into account (Eccl. 12:4; Matt. 12:36).