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We’ve been taught since Galileo that the roots of science contain direct observation and evidence. In grade school, we learned the Scientific Method as a process of objectively establishing fact through testing and experimentation.
Well, most learned such things while my colleagues and I majored in “playground.”
Science teaches sight first, then believing. But the Apostle Paul writes, “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” HHHHMMMHHM — the Bible vs. science and Paul vs. the world’s leading scientists.
It’s why scholars say the Bible lacks science since we can’t observe events like creation and the resurrection, and why atheists take the accusation further by testifying that Christians believe in myths.
Meanwhile, the believer stands in the middle of this chaotic faith vs. science debate, perhaps confused, maybe asking questions, and hoping the conflict can be resolved with the Bible vindicated.
Entering this fray, let me introduce Michael Guillen, a world-renowned scientist who earned three doctorates in physics, mathematics, and astronomy (at the same time from Cornell University) writing a book entitled Believing is Seeing.
And yes, as the title indicates, this world-renowned scientist is taking our side of this argument and agreeing with the Apostle Paul that we walk by faith, not by sight
Let’s have Michael Guillen explain himself. . .
You might pride yourself on being a smart, sophisticated, modern-day person with a smart, sophisticated, modern-day worldview, but don’t kid yourself. Your worldview is not based on logic. It is based on faith. That’s right: faith. Like everyone else’s worldview—including mine—yours is ultimately based on what you believe to be true, on ideas and feelings that cannot ever be proved.
Then Guillen writes. . .
I lived by the trusty adage that seeing is believing. I refused to believe in anything I couldn’t actually see and that couldn’t be proved. But that worldview was now out the window because science had discovered that what we are able to “see”—what we’re able to prove the existence of—is only a small fraction of what’s out there. The missing-mass problem made me realize that if I stuck with my hard-nosed, scientific worldview—if I insisted that “seeing is believing”—then I’d be turning a blind eye to 95 percent of what’s out there in the universe. Clearly, my worldview was too narrow-minded for the cosmos.
A Pastor Grant explanation of what’s out there: It’s called dark matter and dark energy, it makes up 95 percent of the universe, and by implication of observation and calculation of advanced physics, scientists think it exists, although they can’t see it or completely understand it.
Modern scientists live by faith, not sight, and they look down their pious noses on those who admit we live by faith — what hypocrites!
Another Pastor Grant explanation: Let’s name it the OG Theory of Dark Matter and Energy. And for proper credit, I admit that I discovered it in the Bible. . .
All things were created through him (Jesus) and for him. And he (Jesus) is before all things, and in him all things hold together (Colossians 1:16b-17, ESV).
We walk by faith and not by sight, with the entire universe held together by what we cannot see, but by faith believe exists — Jesus — and I have as much evidence for my posit as scientists who have mere speculation, while I have the Bible backing me up.
Who wins? Pastor Grant (and you) or those scallywag scientists?
Place this book on your beach reading list this summer.