I have heard many a time of science contradicting with Christianity. Now, various theories and assumptions have been claimed to contradict with Christianity, but all theories are subject to change. The only real problem people claim science contradicts with religion is on behalf of miracles and the laws of nature. A miracle is an event which is not producible by the natural causes that are operative at the time and place that the event occurs. Miracles are beyond science, in the realm of supernature, and indeed, supernature is impossible to be studied by the study of nature - science. I'll put this shortly. According to logistics, you must believe that something supernatural started the natural, that something with a will placed the beginning of the cosomos into being. In the whole history of the universe the laws of nature have never produced a single event. They are the pattern to which every event must conform, prodivded only that it can be induced to happen. Something (natural) does not come from nothing (natural) by nothing (natural) with the intention of nothing. The only solution is that which we call supernatural, as indeed nature cannot work itself into being - not logically. You can claim this is divinity, or a sort of life-force, whichever you wish. In agreement with this, it would be fallicious for you to claim miracles are non-existent when indeed the very genesis of the cosmos was started by what would be classified as a miracle. Miracles do indeed exist, and from this the root of Theism roars alive as well. Are you to go against your own logic to support your theories?
I again post my C.S. Lewis response if indeed you would deny your own logic:
Question:
"Materialists and some astronomers suggest that the solar planetary system and life as we know it was brought about by an accidental stellar collision. What is the Christian view of this theory?"
Lewis:
"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents -- the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts -- i.e. of Materialism and Astronomy -- are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset."
Remember, theories, to some extent, are based on assumption.
blessings,
John
I again post my C.S. Lewis response if indeed you would deny your own logic:
Question:
"Materialists and some astronomers suggest that the solar planetary system and life as we know it was brought about by an accidental stellar collision. What is the Christian view of this theory?"
Lewis:
"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents -- the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts -- i.e. of Materialism and Astronomy -- are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset."
Remember, theories, to some extent, are based on assumption.
blessings,
John
