Science Sees a Creator Seminars coming this Fall
I will be hosting weekly seminars on the CSU campus every Thursday at 1pm in Engineering E204, covering evidence from science that points to a Creator and an historical basis for the Bible. If you have ever had questions about science and the Bible, this series is for you!
Why look for scientific evidence for matters of religious faith? Is it even right to try to support our faith with evidence?
Such questions are common in the postmodern idea of God and faith. But Christianity, when rightly understood, cannot be contained or explained in that postmodern paradigm. Christianity claims to describe a universal truth that applies to every person, in every culture, past, present and future. Christianity claims that even if it is not believed or known the truths it describes determine an eternal outcome for every person. Christianity claims to be somewhat like a scientific law. It is truth about the universe that is operating whether we understand it, agree with it or believe it.
Claims to universal truth need evidence of some sort that everyone can see or examine. For example, when Newton proposed his laws of gravity, he stated that bodies were attracted to one another in proportion to the mass of those bodies, and he gave an equation for the relationship. Anyone with an inclination to do so could do the experiments and calculations again and validate that Newton’s claims to this universal truth were in deed true.
Christianity’s universal claims go beyond just “spiritual” matters. The claims of Christianity often relate to historical events and some have scientific implications as well. If Christianity is universally true then the history it describes will be true and the implications in science will be verifiable.
Many Christians have accepted what has almost become a cultural truism – that the historical and scientific claims of the Bible have been demonstrated to be false. Yet these Christians still hold to a belief in Christianity. Such a view will eventually (as it should) lead to a loss of faith, both for the individual and in a culture as a whole. No belief system should survive if the verifiable aspects of its universal claims have been invalidated.
I am convinced that Christianity is true and all it’s claims can be verified. Jesus is Lord today, and the Person through whom a Creator God has entered, loved and redeemed a lost world. Jesus is the Person to whom every individual will be universally accountable. The Bible is the supernatural inspired record of God’s involvement with, and communication with, this world.
One of the reasons I am convinced of Christianity is that its scientific claims can be validated, despite the common assumption otherwise. The surprising support for the Bible’s claims in the face of overwhelming cultural denial is itself an evidence for Christianity.
A century ago, theologian J. Gresham Machen warned, “it should be ours to create, so far as we can, with the help of God, those favorable conditions for the reception of the gospel. False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion. … as Christians we should try to mold the thought of the world in such a way as to make the acceptance of Christianity something more than a logical absurdity.”
For me, science has been one of the doorways that has, unexpectedly, shown me that it is not Christianity that is the logical absurdity. Sharing the evidence that supports the astonishing claims of Christianity is both a joy and a responsibility for me now. My earnest hope is that this information can have the same profound impact on the faith of others that I have experienced.
John, Are you recording this lecture series to be available through the Summitview media library?
No, they are not being recorded.
Dotty, Sorry, they are not being recorded. Respectfully, John