"God saw all the He had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning- the sixth day."
-Genesis 1:31
In recent times it seems there has been a movement away from religion, specifically Christianity. People maintain the idea that science disproves the possibly of there being a god. They believe that science is able to adequately explain all that we see and observe so there is no room for belief in a god. In this new worldview, science is the only rational explanation for the world and everything in it.
If you've read my blog at all, you'll know that I disagree with that worldview. I do agree that science is able to help us explain many things, but it cannot explain everything. For example, science can explain why humans need to breathe but it cannot explain how life was breathed into the first human. Of course there are many theories as to how people came to be, such as the big bang and evolution, but I don't believe these theories are adequate.
While I could write extensively about things that science can't explain, I actually want to talk about the things that science can explain. Before I get into that, I want to describe why I was thinking about this subject in the first place. In the Bible, there are accounts that talk about miracles that Jesus performed. These miracles were events that happened that can only be explained by supernatural forces, in this instance, the power of God through Jesus Christ. Many people who believe in the scientific worldview claim that these miracles either never happened or were exaggerated accounts of ordinary events. In other words, they believe that nothing can happen that cannot be explained by science.
Again, I don't want to discuss whether or not these miracles really happened or not, although I do believe they did happen. Instead, I want to explore the idea that a scientific explanation nullifies the existence of God. The word "miracle" implies something that isn't ordinary. For example, when Jesus walked on water, we consider it a miracle because ordinarily, people cannot walk on water, they sink. However, what if the very things we consider ordinary are actually miraculous in nature?
To help explain my point, let me pose a question. If I gave you a pair for dice and asked you to roll them a hundred times, would you expect to get the same number every time? If you did happen to roll the same number a hundred times in a row, would you consider that ordinary or not? Of course you wouldn't find that ordinary! You would probably assume that I had altered the dice in some way as to make them roll the same number every time.
If we consider it extraordinary that the dice behaved the same way each time, why do we consider it ordinary that things in nature behave the same way every time? Is it more likely that when an apple falls, it falls at the same speed every time or that it falls at different speeds? Is it really ordinary that water boils at a specific temperature (100°C) every time? Is it not miraculous that if I apply a certain voltage through a certain resistance, I get the same amount of current every time?
My point is that maybe the very fact that we can explain things with science is a miracle in itself. Going back to the dice example, the fact that you rolled the same number each time led you to believe that the dice were designed in a certain way. You would not infer that the dice were random in nature. Similarly, when we see things around us behaving according to the laws of science, we should believe that there is someone who designed it that way. Maybe instead of science removing the need to believe in God, it actually requires it.
-Smart
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