Science & God

The more I study for these stupid challenging Praxis exams the more I am reminded how much I hate dislike tests and I plan to give my future students as many open-book assignments allowed.

Spending each day in science and psychology textbooks has provoked my thinking in ways never considered in high school or undergrad because my faith was not at all a part of my life the way it is today.

Rather than doubting God’s existence, like many others, I have marveled at the idea that people can question His existence after looking at the evidence presented by science. 

I can only thank God for a faith like that.

I read a post discussing the Higgs boson (also referred to as the God particle, which is interesting because physicists are using it to “prove” that no God created this universe) and how researchers are discovering that it accounts for many questions related to mass and such things regarding the big bang theory.

William P. Blair, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University is quoted having said, 

“Imagine the distance from the earth to the sun (93 million miles, or about 8 light minutes) is compressed to the thickness of a typical sheet of paper. On this scale, the “edge” of the Universe is…not reached until the stack of paper is 31 million miles high.” 

31 million miles. If that number is still too large for you to comprehend (it is for me), just take into consideration that the distance from Charlotte, NC to Houston, TX is 1040 miles. Imagine driving from Charlotte to Houston 29,808 times (rounded up), or driving one-way every single day for 81 years of your life.

What we know about the universe is that it is larger than that, and it continues to expand.

How naïve are we to believe that a God can be big enough to create that kind of universe and then humble and loving enough to talk to the people who occupy just one planet in just one of the galaxies?

I don’t consider that naivety. I consider it faith.

“The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, 

belong to the Lord your God, 

as does the earth and everything in it. 

Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them. 

He chose their descendants after them – 

He chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.” 

Deuteronomy 10:14-15 

How blessed are we to serve a God who is mighty and powerful enough that with one sentence He created a universe that people will be researching until Jesus returns!

How blessed are we to serve a loving Father who cares so deeply about our every concern, along with the other seven billion people on Earth and all those who came before and who will come after.

How blessed are we!
There are scholars far more intelligent and theologians far more sound than I who can debate this until the cows come home, but to me science does not disprove God.

Science points to an incredible Creator who is both loving and just, sovereign and humble. 

Who cares for wildflowers blowing in the wind as much as He cares for humans and their trials as much as He cares for whatever else the universe holds. 

A Creator Who adores His creation with a tender heart. 

A Creator who is more concerned with preparing us for the works He has for us than the fact that we continue to try to fit Him in a box so that we can understand what is simply inexplicable.

More to come. This excites me way too much to only post once.