Do you believe in Science?

What are people truly asking when they say, "Do you believe in science?" They may claim is that they believe science is the most important and reliable guideline in life, and that even God must fit into their view of science. Humanistic science excludes the supernatural, so what God says could not happen because it does not fit into their science as they know it now.

Science helps us understand our Universe, although the laws of nature limit it. Science believes that how things happen now has always happened in the past. They call it the law of consistency. However, science is an observation of how God has created the world and the universe and has put all things together. Science can be used for good or for bad, such as nuclear bombs or medicine. Science is also based on mathematics or Physics, which operate by certain laws. However, Science does not contain in itself moral law, and that is perhaps society has become more and more amoral—(the absence of morality or a distorted reality). There are spiritual laws as well. One big law is that “the soul who sins will die” (Ezekiel 18:4). That is why God came in human form in Jesus Christ to redeem us from spiritual and eternal death. To restore us from brokenness and the emptiness of sin.

Of course, we believe in science, but the creation is not to be worshiped above the creator. As the Bible says, “Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen” (Romans 1:24-25)

Some believe that if God doesn’t fit into their view of science, though limited, then it is to be rejected or mocked and scorned. What kind of logic is this? Are we to primarily believe theories about the world and creation or primarily what God has revealed throughout history, as recorded in the Bible and most fully in Jesus Christ?

I don’t believe that Science is above God and God’s supernatural abilities. God operates entirely true to his character. He is always true to his attributes, which could be summed up in goodness, holiness, justice, love, power and glory. God can raise the dead and create the world in one day if he so chooses. He could create the world in one minute if he so desired, since he also created time. As the Bible states, “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens” (Genesis 2:4). He, however, breaks down creation to explain the process in 6 days. God, being God, can create in a short time or a long time since he is the author of time, and the world itself could be made to be very old when created. As God’s word says, “He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). We don’t know the exact details of how creation came into being.

There are various views of creation among evangelical Christians. Some believe that there is a great time gap between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis 1, when the earth was without form and void and then God created. Others believe the days are long periods of time. Still others believe that Genesis just gives us the framework to know that God had a process in creating, but not the details of how the process exactly came into being aren’t detailed. The primary point is that God created the world, and the world did not just come out of nothing. A self-existent God created out of nothing. This last statement is logical, but it is not logical that nothing created something. Some, though a few, evangelical Christians believe in theistic evolution. How God created is not an issue in salvation. A belief in how God created is not required for repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ. However, certainly, we would need to believe God created.

When we seek to appease the Science of the day by doing away with the supernatural, as many naturalist scientists would like us to believe, then life and our viewpoint get distorted. God is supernatural and does not fit into our conceptions; he far above our conceptions, but we can know him by his revelation as recorded in the Bible and by the Holy Spirit. Yes, Science is a wonderful discipline, but it is not the essence of everything. God is the essence of everything. As the scriptures state, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 55:8)

Science is like a moulting chicken, always changing and coming up with different views or theories to explain the universe from man’s limited perspective. Science should be in the service of God, not God in the service of science. However, man’s basic sin is making himself god in the place of the one true God.

No wonder modern Universities don’t allow the study of the divine anymore, especially in Canada or encourage Christianity. It doesn’t fit in with their Science. We have taken the soul out of the study of man and the universe. Man without a soul disintegrates into itself. Secular Science is a jealous god and doesn’t allow other gods to have their place.

Yes, I believe in science in its right order, and to enhance our study of man and the universe and should lead us to the awe of God rather than the scorn of him. There is no smarter being in this world and the universe than God. It would make sense to listen to him and honour him. Yes, I believe in science in its proper perspective, with respect to a holy, loving, powerful, and just God who holds the world in His hands. In other words, Science is in subjection to God, not the other way around. Science bows at the foot of the cross, as do we all.