Separate science and faith? Yes!
Recently, the NY Times pointed out an article in the official Vatican newspaper that agrees with the Dover PA court decision on Intelligent Design; making the case that science and faith should remain separate. This author agrees with this position on faith!
But faith is behind more endeavors than the mainstream press cares to admit.
Which of the following belief systems is the more reasonable faith?
1. The one that believes that everything we see around us is the property of pure chance?
- The life-enabling properties of water which make it unlike any other substance in the universe? Modify its chemical or thermal properties to make it more like other matter, and no life is here to witness it.
- What about the properties of light and the electromagnetic spectrum that is output by our sun? Change this in even a small way and we are no longer here to witness it.
- The properties of much other matter are also demonstrably required for life: Carbon, Iron, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and others. Again, change these and no known complex life can exist.
- To all of the above necessary preconditions of life, add the amazing information-bearing rules of life that are embodied in DNA. Darwinism cannot begin to explain this as evolution cannot operate without it. But how did DNA come to exist in the first place?
2. What about the belief that we were designed and created for a purpose?
- If myriads of the properties of our universe are modified in any way, then we are no longer here to witness it. Physical evidences embodied by an incredibly fine-tuned universe should at least allow for the possibility of a designer.
- A designer apparently much like one that has been self-revealed through an ancient record…
- A reliable written record that has a mountain of evidence to support it.
- That clearly describes its author as the designer and creator of both the universe and the life within it.
- That predicted all of the most notable parts of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ — all hundreds of years before he was even born:
- He would have a miraculous birth.
- Be preceded by a forerunner.
- Would be both a teacher and prophet.
- A worker of miracles.
- Would be the actual Creator…
- Who became human to enter the Creation.
- And be killed by being nailed to a tree.
- He would conquer death
- All for the purpose of rescuing the Creation from a horrible fate.
- All of this was foretold many hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
But one doesn’t have to go to ancient scripture to see very strong evidence of a designer; one only has to take an objective look at the universe around us!
Which requires more faith: a belief that our superbly-tuned universe and the life within it is the result of random chance, or that we were designed for a purpose?
All beliefs require some faith. But which is the more reasonable faith?
Yes, faith should be distinguished from science. But this also includes the faith-based religion of Darwinian Naturalism!
