The battle is a worldview conflict- materialism vs theism
Which way does Science point? Toward God or atheism
It is so easy to say that science is limited – the pressure is on to think that science is the only way to truth
Three major areas that show science point to God
- Very close connection between belief in God and the impetus to do science – the early scientists were Christians who understood laws were there because there is a lawgiver
- Young people are told they must choose science or God (Dawkins- the God delusion)
- Atheism is escapism- if there is no God Freud gives a good explanation that either God or Atheism is escapism you must decide which way you believe
- The first problem is they don’t understand God
- There is a vast difference between the gods of the ancients and the God of the Bible- the God of the Bible created the universe
- They think of God as a God of the gaps- because we cant explain it- God must have done it- the God of the Bible is the God of what we can explain and what we cant explain- not the God of the gaps-
- the more Newton understood Science the more he believed in God
What do we mean by explanation- science explains
- God is an explanation but He is not the same kind of explanation science is- (one shows how it works the other explains how it came to being)
- (example of an engine and explaining its existence by Henry Ford and science-both explain it)
- the question who created the creator?- who created x- this assumes x was created- but what if He wasn’t the question is irrelevant- God is not created He is eternal
- You could ask –who created your creator- something is eternal (uncaused cause agent)
- The new atheists have redefined faith as a blind belief- Christianity is evidence based- yet faith is essential in science- you have to believe that the human mind is sufficient to do science
- Chief objection to atheism is not that it does not believe in God but that it is anti-science (Thomas Nagle of New York)- (where the problem really lies –book)
- Contrast the biblical reason why science works- the most incomprehensible thing about the universe if that it is comprehensible
- Atheism is Reductionism- bottom up explanations (God’s undertaker- John Lennox)
- (see-dueling professors- youtube)