science isn't vs creation

God uses laws. He created man and gave us laws. He created the world, space, and time. Everything we see are His works. The study of His works is called science.

Everything we learn in science has an explanation. A cause and an effect. A law can describe these relationships. We can predict what might happen. Chemical reactions are the same if they take place under the exact same situations. Doesn't it make sense that science would be logical, predictable, and put in an orderly fashion? For example, God gave us laws, the 10 commandments, and He said that if we disobeyed them then there would be a punishment. This is cause and effect. In chemistry, if we mix an acid and a base together, they will neutralize and give you water + a salt. This is a cause and effect.

Of course, it would make sense, then, that someone who was logical and orderly would have created the universe? And of course, our minds are incomparable to that of God's, so there will always be things we will not understand. Human kind was only able to discover all these laws and trends we have found in science based on the fact that we knew everything happened in a specific pattern, and cycle. Take Kepler, or Newton. These scientists were aware that a God exists, and that God does things in an orderly fashion, and makes things with a purpose. God doesn't make mistakes. He does not create junk.

Egyptian, Greek, and many other religions/religious views all see the world as eternal, that it was always here. They say that mounds of land just rose up from the waters, or the waters created land when they touched the skies.. and stuff like that. Every religion out there (other than Christianity) indicates that there was no beginning. But what are scientists saying? They are saying that "it all started with the Big Bang" (that sounds like the intro song to Big Bang Theory). So even science believes that there was a beginning, just like the Bible says in Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning". This means that God was there before the beginning - He created time. Therefore, God is outside of time. How can we, human beings who live inside time be able to comprehend a being that exists outside of time?

See, since science is the study of God's creation, then it would make sense that the more we learn about God, the more we'll learn about science, or His creation. Similarly, the more we discover in science, the more we are in awe of God's mighty power, and how awesome He is. You can see His glory just by looking around you, everything that He has made is so beautiful and flawless (well, aside from humans ruining some stuff).

Some people question Christianity because it doesn't seem to make sense. Well, if we were able to understand everything there is about Christianity, then couldn't it have been just made up? If it was logical and "made sense", then what would be the point? Then God wouldn't be so awesome, and He wouldn't be so powerful, we wouldn't need Him, and He wouldn't be a God. It makes sense to believe in something that doesn't make sense, because it proves that it wasn't man made, and it backs up the fact that we need faith in God, and believe that He sent His son to save us. If it were that simple, then why would we need faith? (see below for more)

So science isn't the opposite of creation. In fact, it backs up creation. The only problem we have is that not everything scientists "discover" is actually true. Year after year, more "studies" are conducted, and we find out that we "were wrong" before, and now we "have the right data". Like how they used to think the earth was flat, and now they say it's round. To be able to understand science better, we must understand God better. We must understand the creator to be able to understand His creation.

interesting?


If you want to know more about why we need faith:

What is faith?
Hebrews 11:1,

 ¹ Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Why do we need faith?
Romans 3: 21-31 says...

²¹ But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. ²² This righteousness is given through faith in^[h] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ²⁵ God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,^[i] through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— ²⁶ he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
 ²⁷ Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. ²⁸ For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. ²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, ³⁰ since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. ³¹ Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.



also see:
Romans 4:13-17,

¹³ It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. ¹⁴ For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, ¹⁵ because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.
 ¹⁶ Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. ¹⁷ As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”^[c] He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

John 3:16
¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

(NIV)

What these passages mean in relation to us:

This passage is talking about how the price of sin is death, and everyone has sinned (3:22). Therefore, we all have earned the punishment of death. But God sent His son, Jesus Christ to die for us, in our place. It was only him who was able to do this for us because he was pure, free from sin. His death made up for all of our sins, every single one of them. God has done everything for us, so that we might live (eternally). The only thing He can not do, however, is to force us to have faith and believe in Him - because He gave us free will. We have the freedom to choose whether or not we want to live eternally, or suffer eternal death. The choice is ours to make, God has already done everything else. The promise the passage is talking about is the promise of life after death, eternal life. Also, verses 3:30 and 4:17 show that this applys not only to the Israelites (God's chosen people, if you go back and read the first few books Gen-Deut), but this applys to everyone, all the people.


But it doesn't mean everything's going to be easy once you have faith....
There's a section in my Bible (not part of the books, but its like a study guide...) and it says,
"Great prizes await those who persevere, and the very process of living by faith builds strong character."
and..
"It is tough faith: a constant commitment to hang on and believe God against all odds, no matter what."