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Science and Faith

For many people today, whether they’re atheists or religious believers, science is locked in conflict with faith, and believing in the Big Bang contradicts the idea that God created the Universe. The current scientific view of how the Universe began points to a definite moment of creation. Perhaps it even hints at the reality of [...]

Are science and faith like oil and water? Some people seem to think so. We like to think that science is full of absolutes – that things are or are not.  There’s a saying that “reality is anything you can hit with a hammer” but that’s not true either.  There are all sorts of things [...]

Scientists in the US are working to confirm the plausibility of the circumstances described a story written over 3000 years ago. The biblical Old Testament book of Exodus describes an event that is often familiar to people even if they have never opened a Bible: Moses parting the Red Sea. Or rather, God doing so. [...]

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Afterlife – Science: Impossible?

Does science make it impossible that Jesus rose from the dead? If Jesus really did rise from the dead, it’s the most important thing that’s ever happened. But many people today think that what we know about the world scientifically rules out any possibility that he did. We don’t even need to think about whether [...]

I cooked dinner last night. Too bad my first grader had already turned in his science fair project—the remains of my culinary escapade would have made a great display. My darling hubby was sick, and wasn’t in the room during the ordeal—which makes me eternally grateful. He already has more kitchen stories against me than [...]

What came first, the chicken or the egg? The cheeky title of the CNN news article is “Scientists solve chicken and egg riddle*” … that asterisk, like a bad newspaper ad for a misleading airplane ticket sale, leads to a caveat in smaller text in the main article that simple reads: “Editor’s Note: *Maybe” After [...]

Science has contributed innumerable benefits to human life on planet Earth. We should be deeply grateful for the hard work of scientists who dedicate their lives to loyal study of this discipline and the advantages scientific advances grant us. Due to its success, there is often a tendency to think that science can explain everything. [...]

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Can Science Prove Religion?

Next: Examining Christianity with Science Did Julius Caesar ever live? Did William Shakespeare really write Hamlet? These questions are outside of the realm of scientific investigation. We cannot prove them by repeating these circumstances and observing them. Instead, we’re left to draw a conclusion, a verdict, based on the evidence. The same is true when it [...]

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Proving History with Science

Next: Can Science Prove Religion? Did Julius Caesar ever live? Did William Shakespeare really write Hamlet? These questions are outside of the realm of scientific investigation. We cannot prove them by repeating these circumstances and observing them. Instead, we’re left to draw a conclusion, a verdict, based on the evidence. The same is true when it [...]

“All thinking men are atheists.” Ernest Hemingway, author “Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind …” Sir Isaac Newton, physicist Are “all thinking men” really atheists as Hemingway asserted? If so, it would seem that religion and science would indeed be enemies.  However, history does not give us much support for this idea. Besides [...]