Thatched House

Christianity is committed to truth and is not afraid of what science may find. But many Christians are wary of science thinking that it is forever locked in battle with religious faith. Such people reduce faith to something that science cannot explain. They believe in a God who is confined to the gaps in our scientific knowledge. The mysterious, the supernatural, and the unexplained are attributed to God. But when scientific knowledge progresses and what could not be explained is now out in the open, the space of God shrinks. Such a God therefore becomes smaller and smaller as scientific discovery expands. I was brought up with the thought that if I go too much into science, I may lose my faith. When it comes to matters of faith, I must not ask anything or have any doubt. I must simply believe like a child. To even think or rationalize seemed evil. I must not use my brain too much. I must give my heart fully to God and everything will be OK. Such infantile belief is still pe...

Evolution and Theology operates at different levels: The first talks about our chronological origin while the later about our ontological origin. The two talks of different things and cannot be contested. Therefore creation vs. evolution is a non-debate. But yes, Evolution and YEC is the issue in contention. To take the Bible as a science textbook believing in its inerrancy runs into problems within the text itself, e.g. genealogical precision (Genesis 11:12 cf. Luke 3:35). Nature of science is such that a theory’s in place until refuted by another which better explains the phenomenon under study. No better theory has come up to refute evolution than the criticism of its loopholes. The above point doesn’t mean the acceptance of evolution in spite of its weakness just for want of a better theory. The ever growing evidence and the landslide consensus among scientists testify to it being a theory and not a hypothesis. The proportion of Bible scholars vouching for a literal interpr...