Science & Faith

Notes

• The Bible reveals that God is the Creator & Sustainer of all things in the universe.
• The Bible reveals that everything belongs to God – He is ruler of all!
• The Bible reveals that creation proclaims the glory & greatness of the Creator!
• The Bible reveals that God makes Himself known to the created through creation.
• The Bible reveals that the Creator is ‘wicked’ powerful!
• You’d need to believe that nothing produces everything.
• You’d need to believe that non-life produces life.

Verses

{In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NLT}{He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. Colossians 1:17 NLT}{For the Lord is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos. “I am the Lord,” he says, “and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:18 NLT}{The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything in the world is yours – you created it all. Psalm 89:11 NLT}{The Lord is king! He is robed in majesty. Indeed, the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken. Psalm 93:1 NLT}{The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship. Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known. They speak without a sound or word; their voice is never heard. Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world. Psalm 19:1-4 NLT}{They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. Romans 1:19-20 NLT}{The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born. He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs. Let the whole world fear the Lord, and let everyone stand in awe of him. For when he spoke, the world began! It appeared at his command. Psalm 33:6-9 NLT}

Quotes

Timothy Keller : Many people today, both secular and Christian, want us to believe that science and religion cannot live together. Not only is this untrue, but we believe that a thoughtful dialogue between science and faith is essential for engaging the hearts and minds of individuals today. (The Reason for God); St. Augustine : The Bible is not a scientific textbook seeking to answer the ever-changing inquires of science but rather a theological textbook seeking to reveal God and the means by which He saves us. (The Literal Meaning of Genesis); Robert Velarde : Even if Science could answer every question there is about the universe – its origins, its ‘evolution’ and so forth – such scientific answers would move us no nearer to philosophical truth than if we remained scientifically ignorant. Omniscient science still could not answer why there is something – the universe – rather than nothing. Or where everything came from. Or why we exist. Let us not mangle what science can do and what it cannot do. (Conversations With C.S. Lewis); Freeman Dyson : The more I examine the universe, and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the Universe in some sense must have known we were coming. (); Jonathan Wells : Like all other scientific theories, Darwinian evolution must be continually compared with the evidence. If it does not fit the evidence, it must be reevaluated or abandoned – otherwise it is not science, but myth. (Icons of Evolution); Bertrand Russell : Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms. (Free Man's Worship); J.P. Moreland : You can’t get something from nothing. If the universe began with dead matter having no consciousness, how, then, do you get something totally different – consciousness, living, thinking, feeling, believing creatures – from materials that don’t have that? But if everything started in the mind of God, we don’t have a problem with explaining the origin of our mind. (The God Question); Francis S. Collins (Head of the Genome Project) : I can’t imagine how nature, in this case the universe, could have created itself. And the very fact that the universe had a beginning implies that someone was able to begin it. And it seems to me that had to be outside of nature. (); Fred Hoyle (Astronomer) : The probability of life arising on earth by purely natural means, without special divine aid is less than the probability that a flight-worthy Boeing 747 should be assembled by a hurricane roaring through a junkyard. (); Phillip Johnson : People are always looking for ways to forget God, even if they have to give up reason in order to do it. (The Wedge of Truth); Lee Strobel : At the end of the day – we need to weigh the evidence and make an informed decision – the universe if governed both by physical laws and spiritual laws – the physical laws point us towards the Creator; the spiritual laws tell us how we can know Him personally. (The Case for a Creator);