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The Divine Design Series #1
God our Creator: Science
National Geographic’s March 2015 lead article was entitled “The War on Science”, and it spoke of
how more and more, people are skeptical of scientific claims (Ebola, vaccinations, GMO’s,
pharmaceutical companies and the government).
Science does not always get it right the first time. After several hundred years of good and bad
science, we’ve learned to be a little skeptical. Everyone should think “scientifically”...
 spot an inconsistency in someone’s argument (know when we’re being lied to!)
 make observations ... test a hypothesis.
 Capable of rational thought.
Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling said: “Science is the search for truth. We want to
know the TRUTH about our world, about life, about our origin and our destiny.
The way we interpret the world, the way we sift through all the facts that come our way, will be
determined by whether or not we believe in a God who created us. There’s not a “war” on science,
and Christians at least, are not trying to be skeptical. It’s just we see the need to be honest about our
underlying beliefs, because that’s where the polarization begins!
This is THE “fork in the road”, the greatest “If”/”Then” proposition we will ever face in our lives.
The Two Essential Options: Naturalism/Creationism
1. Naturalism: The belief that there is nothing besides the natural world and natural laws at
work. There is no outside interference from a supernatural being. No miracles, no divine
intervention. Scott Todd wrote in the science journal Nature: “Even if all the data points to an
intelligent designer, such a hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic.”
His search for truth begins by eliminating the possibility of a Creator, even if the evidence points in
that direction! And a leading evolutionary geneticist, Professor Richard Lewontin wrote: “We take the
side of [evolutionary] science..., because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism
… Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”
Implications are a meaningless existence, or as Quintin Smith says “ (we) came from nothing, by
nothing, and for nothing”. Richard Dawkins :“blind physical forces... with no design, no purpose, no
evil and no good, nothing but indifference”.
Problems with Naturalism:
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Assumes atheism is neutral. NOT a general search for truth that takes all the facts into account.
LOGICAL Inconsistencies
a. Nothing produced something
b. Non-life produces life
c. Randomness produces fine-tuning
d. Chaos produces information
e. Unconsciousness produces consciousness
f. Non-reason produces reason
Disturbing IMPLICATIONS...
 Chance and chaos can hardly be used as a basis for morality. It becomes morality by
consensus... which didn’t work too well for Nazi Germany!
 An unavoidable arrogance and lack of respect for those who disagree. People who believe in
God are “unscientific and ignorant”. Dan Arel in a piece published on the Richard Dawkins
Foundation website said: "Scientists should not debate creationists. Period. Creationism is a
worthless and uneducated position to hold in our modern society...”
 Leads to terrifying ethics: Richard Dawkins (famous atheistic scientist who does not believe
in good or evil) recently tweeted that a woman who refused to abort her baby who had Downs
Syndrome was “immoral” (inconsistent?). What’s next? Sterilizing mentally retarded
people? Discouraging people with a low IQ to reproduce?
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2. Creationism: A search for truth, a scientific inquiry grounded in the belief that
complex natural laws were set in motion by an Intelligent Being who knew what He was
doing.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was
formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God
was moving over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and
there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the
darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was
evening and there was morning, one day.
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God is what Aristotle called “the Uncaused Cause” of all things.
Chaos does not create order, it creates disorganization, not organization. Molecules
randomly shooting through space do not assemble themselves into complex life forms.
Science USED TO SAY the universe was eternal (Carl Sagan, COSMOS). Now science is
saying... “Its not eternal... it had a beginning” (Big Bang). This is consistent with scripture.
Much of what is passed off as “neutral, unbiased, pure truth-seeking science” is in fact
atheism dressed in a lab coat.
EARLY SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVED IN GOD:
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) who put forward the first mathematically based system of
planets going around the sun.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1627) established the scientific method of inquiry based on
experimentation and inductive reasoning.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) a brilliant mathematician and astronomer. Established the laws of
planetary motion about the sun.
Galileo (1564-1642) Described how our solar system worked in 1633. He believed in God.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and theologian.
Pascal invented a mechanical calculator, and established the principles of vacuums and air
pressure.
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) an undisputed genius and innovator.... devoutly religious.
Robert Boyle (1791-1867) One of the founders and key early members of the Royal Society, ...
gave his name to "Boyle's Law" for gases, and also wrote an important work on chemistry.
Boyle wrote against atheists in his day.
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) His work on electricity and magnetism not only revolutionized
physics, but led to things like computers and telephone lines and web sites).
William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907) Said to have more letters after his name than anyone else
in England, since he received numerous honorary degrees from European Universities, which
recognized the value of his work. He was a very committed Christian.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Recognized the impossibility of a non-created universe. Famous
saying: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
We accept the fact that species adapt to their environment and that they change over time. That’s
“micro-evolution”. What we DON’T believe is that species transform themselves from blobs of
protein molecules to fish to lizards to birds to monkeys to humans. If “macro-evolution” was true we
should be finding thousands of transitional life forms... yet they are not to be found.
Every Christian should be an amateur scientist in that we have a vested interest in knowing the truth
about our world. Our methods of research must be disciplined and rigorous. We should study the
world methodically. We can and should be skeptical of all new discoveries until they are proven to
be true. We must fearlessly follow the facts where they lead with integrity and honesty. We must
continue to come to the table of scientific research, uninvited as we are, we must come.