Science
Hasn't science disproved God?
Science has explained a lot. Has it explained God away?
Different questions
Science explains how nature works by testing what can be observed. By design, it leaves out causes beyond nature. So it can't say whether God is behind it all.
- Isaac NewtonGravity and motion, 1687. Wrote widely on the Bible.
- Gregor MendelFounded genetics. A monk.
- Georges LemaîtreFirst proposed the Big Bang. A priest.
- Francis CollinsLed the Human Genome Project. Became a Christian at 27.
Believers built modern science
Many of science's pioneers believed in God, and many scientists still do.
No standing war
The idea that science and faith have always been at war is mostly a story from the 1800s. Historians of science largely reject it.
“The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshiped in the cathedral or in the laboratory.
A scientist's view
Collins was an atheist as a young man. Studying the evidence led him to faith.
- Science studies how nature normally behaves.
- A miracle is God acting beyond the normal.
- So whether one happened is a question of evidence.
What about miracles?
The Bible never says miracles are ordinary. The whole faith rests on one that isn't: the resurrection. Look at the evidence for it.
Science tells us how the world works. It can't tell us there is no God, and many of the people who built it believed in Him.
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity