After just learning I was a Christian someone asked me if he could try and disprove my faith. I told him to go for it. He focused on science. Obviously he was assuming (as many seem to do) that if science explains the progress and creation of new life that God will have to be lost and forgotten. I don't understand that thinking. If evolution and/or The Big Bang are proven true beyond a shadow of a doubt my God will still exist. If evolution and/or The Big Bang are proven wrong my God will still exist. Many Christians feel like they must disprove evolution to maintain a hold on their faith. Many non-Christians, especially those vehemently opposed to religion, think that proving evolution will negate any need or any reason to believe in a God.
... as if God were
only Creator. He is Provider and Lover and Forgiver and Guide and Sustainer...and He is also Giver-of-life -- but He doesn't always work how we expect Him to. My God is bigger than science. He is bigger than the natural laws that control our universe. So why does science scare some Christians? Why does science pull Christians away from Christ? I honestly don't know.
"Christians need have no fear of engaging in the world of science, for we should have no fear of truth."
-Ross Hastings
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