Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:14:07 PM
The post-Reformation men who invented modern science and the scientific method saw no conflict between science and religion. Science and religion were both viewed as redemptive and under the authority of God. Even though man is fallen in sin, the gospel is powerful to reconcile man with his Creator, and science is a means to restore his dominion over the creation.
Unfortunately, many today who call themselves scientists have a different view. They do see a conflict between science and religion. Rather than viewing science as discovering God’s creative wisdom as the author and sustainer of life, they are in the business to disprove the existence and necessity of God. Their presupposition is that of the fool who says that there is no God.
The early scientists and the foundation established by their body of work are forgotten. They investigated the creation expecting to find cause and effect because of their belief in a reasonable Creator who had given them dominion over the creation as His image bearers.
The Darwinian world view gives a man no basis for such expectation. Why would he ever begin to search for cause and effect in a world without design and governed by random processes? The false science of today stands on a foundation established by the Christian world-view. It opposes and seeks to destroy that which provides the only basis for science.