Understanding the Christian faith in the light of current scientific theories is a vital topic for anyone seeking to commend Christ today. The highly-publicized recent debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye “the Science Guy” is a case in point, as is the choice to focus on this topic for the recent Mere Anglicanism conference.
With my background in physics, it is a subject that has long interested me. In engaging these conversations, it is important to remember that scientists study a disordered world. It has fallen into sin, death, and destruction, which we know from Scripture are not part of God’s long-term plans for His creation. But this fall is something that probably cannot be detected scientifically. Scientists can only study what they “see” and then draw inferences from that. They observe, for instance, that entropy (disorder) always increases in natural events, but cannot know scientifically that this must be a temporary crisis that will be resolved in the new heavens and new earth that will last forever.
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Very interesting short article by Justin Terry+. While scientists do study a disordered world, I have always wondered…. Why then do so many in the natural sciences see the intelligent design of the world and hence believe in a Intelligent Designer? For many scientists, this is the God of the Old and New Testaments. It would seem that if progressives are correct, then many in the *humanities* should be believers. Yet this disciplines tend to be the playing field of many atheists and agnostics. While scientists study a disordered world, I really do believe that the heavens declare the Glory of God…. and so do many scientists including more Nobel Laureates than you might expect.