TEXAS GOSPEL VOLUNTEER
A person can be a scientist and a Christian and feel no shame about either one. In fact, Christianity can be said to have given us the subject of science in the first place.
John Lennox noted once that it is surprising that serious thinkers today still ask us to pick one or the other, God or science. That is like asking people to choose between Henry Ford and engineering as the explanation for the car. Nobody would do that. Henry Ford explains who made the car and why. Engineering explains how it works. Both are true, and they do not fight each other.
Think about Isaac Newton. When he found the law of gravity, he did not say, “Now I have a law, so I do not need God.” Instead, he wrote the Principia Mathematica, which may be the greatest work in the whole history of science.
Why was Newton able to do both? He saw that God is not the same kind of explanation as a scientific one. A scientific explanation tells us how something works, using laws and mechanisms. An explanation that points to God tells us who is behind it. These are different kinds of answers to different kinds of questions.
God does not compete with science. A person doing something on purpose, which is called agency, does not compete with the machinery and laws that carry it out. The two sit side by side. We do not have to choose between God and science.
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
Psalm 8:3
The moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
