Science Has Disproved Christianity

I think that I can comfortably admit that this particular point bothers me above all others previously discussed in the book. Not that I think that science has disproved Christianity, but rather science thinks that it has disproved Christianity. I am frequently annoyed by seemingly confident headlines that state that there is no God. And much like an atheist reading this book, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, I find their “proof” remarkably flawed.

Perhaps it is because I abhor conflict, but I would really like the disciplines to get along. Much like a school child must give equal weight to their reading, writing and arithmetic, science and religion must live together amicably. You laugh.

For instance, in my own mind and not because of someone else’s teaching. And again, I am not the first person to think this. Nor will I be the last. I do not think myself unique in this position. But I have always imagined that the universe could very well have come into existence in a Big Bang way. Only not because of a random primordial occurrence, but rather because God said let there be and there was.

Just because God could say, let there be, and there was, doesn’t necessarily mean that he said light and a switch was flipped. He didn’t wave a wand and pull a rabbit out of His hat. No, for me, He would be more like the conductor of a tremendous symphony orchestra directing the beginning with His hands. Raising the lights brighter until He is pleased and it is good.

Ah yes. My influence might be C.S. Lewis himself. Look to the Magician’s Nephew when Aslan sings Narnia into existence. That is it precisely.

And I must imagine that God also enjoys surprises. He has worked into our DNA the very blueprint for wonders. The mutation for blue eyes that has recently entered the news. Spontaneous mutations in cats and the shape of their ears or the texture of their fur. Ligers. Tall, short, thick, thin.

I can buy evolution to an extent – changes within species. Can I accept it as the “be all end all” answer to why we are here. Nope. No way.

I was startled by a video posted on Facebook recently. It’s a mini lecture on Stupid Design by Neil Degrasse Tyson. To sum it up in my own words… We are horribly ridiculous creatures. It is a wonder that we can even survive. There is no way an intelligent, perfect Being was behind our creation. He could have done a much better job. That being said, we are utterly amazing creatures to have spontaneously evolved out of the ooze. But nope, we are nothing special and the universe wasn’t made for us. It is funny, but somehow I find it merely demonstrating how amazing we are and the miracle that is our world…

The more I see and hear of our universe, the more in awe I am and the more I want to learn more – not to disprove God’s existence, but to gaze in wonder of what He has made for us.

Psalm 8 (esv)

Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
in the heavens.
Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?

You have made the a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You made them ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea
all that swim the paths of the seas.

Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!