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Calvary Church

Science and Christianity

Science and Christianity

In this teaching we’ll examine and dispel what many see as contradictions between science and the Christian Faith.

Locations & Times

Calvary Church

4700 53rd St, Moline, IL 61265, USA

Sunday 8:30 AM

Sunday 10:30 AM

Scientism: Excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques. the opinion that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.
Science is a great tool for answering the WHAT of the natural world. But it has no ability to explain the WHY of life and purpose like we find in Scripture.
Careful study of SCRIPTURE and true application of the SCIENTIFIC METHOD remain complimentary not in opposition to each other.
“The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.” -Galileo
Gravitational Constant If this number varied by just one in 10 to the 60th parts, no life or the universe as we know it, would exist
“The accuracy, of even the gravitational constant can be compared to firing a bullet at a one inch target on the other side of the observable universe, twenty billion light years away, and hitting that target, blindfolded, because we’re still talking about chance, not skill.” -Paul Davies
Expansion Rate Constant A change in this constant a mere one part of 10 the 120th parts, would cause the universe to expand too rapidly or too slowly and life of any kind impossible
“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggest that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics… And that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.” -Fred Hoyle
It is the ADVANCEMENT of science, not the IGNORANCE of it, that has revealed the careful curation and precision of our creator.
“But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.” - Charles Darwin
“I will lay it on the line - there is not one such fossil (a fossil which is ancestral or transitional) for which one could make a watertight argument.” -Colin Patterson
EVOLUTION has yet to be truly observable, let alone REPEATEDLY observable. Which is the true litmus test for the scientific method.
We think of miracles as the SUSPENSION of natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the RESTORATION of the natural order.

Talk About It

Discussion Questions:
1. Are there topics you believed, or still believe, that Christianity and science oppose each other?
2. Can you give an example in your life of how the natural world has inspired a greater desire to know and worship God?
3. What miracles have you experienced in your life? How has that solidified your faith in Jesus Christ?

Next Step:
What is one way you can move your hope from what you can see and touch to the promise Christ has given that He will make all things new? Is there a particular area that you need that hope?