Does science owe
reparations to God? Consider: God gave science everything to investigate, to
supposedly prove or disprove. God gave humans faith and belief and the chance
at everlasting life. Yet many scientists have done all they can to supersede
God, banish Him, disprove His existence. And, in doing so, their clinical
virtue signaling has robbed hope end meaning from the lives of countless
millions, and, sadly, too often made a mockery of science itself.
Someone once said, “They blinded me with science.” Those words ring especially true
in this (almost?) post-pandemic time of hoaxes.
God is the way, the truth, and the life. Whether many scientists wish to admit
it or not, science mostly grasps at determining what God's natural laws are and
what they do. Neither scientists nor “experts” created the cosmos. They—like
the rest of us—merely try to interpret it. But it is clear that many of them simply
do not like the idea of a power higher than their own. (See also: Dr. Fauci.) The
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously stated, “God is dead.”
At one time in the
past, it was “settled” science that the Earth was flat, and was the center of our
solar system, if not the universe. The most learned doctors believed in using
leeches to bloodlet the seriously ill. In the 1960s and 1970s, most climate
experts considered global cooling to be an existential threat. And many thought
the “Population Bomb” was going to go off in the coming years causing mass
starvation across the planet. We were soon to experience a “Silent Spring” due
to a mass extinction event.
Between 2002 and
2006, scientists--- and Al Gore-- stated that Mount Kilimanjaro would be permanently
devoid of snow and ice by 2020 at the latest. That hasn’t happened.
More recently, COVID-19 was first considered by
experts to be no big deal-- and we were told to go about our business, masks
not necessary. Shortly thereafter, the same experts told us that it may, in
fact, kill us all…if we didn’t wear at least one mask and stay home until
otherwise notified. Finally, we were told that we must get vaccinated,
that if enough of us got vaccinated we would reach “herd immunity” and could
get back to something approaching normal. Turns out, the vaccines did not
prevent anyone from transmitting—or contracting-- the virus, perhaps repeatedly.
Good thing previous vaccines against smallpox, measles, and polio didn’t work
that way.
None of this is to
say that science isn't necessary, just that it's not flawless. God, on the
other hand is both. Scientists squabble over whether the universe has always
been here or if there was a beginning, a “Big Bang.” if there was a
beginning, how did it occur, what triggered it? What made RNA and DNA appear,
etc.?
Science is but a
tool mankind uses in an attempt to ascertain information, to identify the truth.
But the truth is, scientists, like men in general, struggle with this endeavor.
They-- and we-- often make wrong assumptions,
inaccurate guesses, and off base hypotheses. Some no longer believe there is
such a thing as the truth. Ultimately, we will find that the truth is…the truth
is. And that it resides in God. And we should be grateful for that.
Meanwhile, the
science is never settled…or it wouldn't be science. Anyone that tells you
otherwise is not a legitimate scientist. The God that made us, piqued our curiosity,
and bid us to search the heavens, made science possible as He made everything
else.
God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life.
We all owe
Him reparations for that.
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