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I've been thinking a lot lately about the movement that has been going on about how science is continually advancing and disproving God. This same science that does an about face and reverses itself every 10 years or so? Folks, we are imperfect/finite beings... just because a large group observes something and comes together to form a consensus does not (at all) mean that they have found 'truth'.
Let me backtrack a minute, just what is science and how does it come about? The scientific method happens when a group of people (mostly with good intentions) individually study and observe (many times through experiments) a particular thing, then they come together and form a consensus based on their findings. A good analogy would be if 10 people were placed in a very dark stadium with no lights but each gets a flashlight, then they come to an agreement on the nature of where they are based on what they've seen. It's doubtful that their little flashlight will not shine bright enough to see the top of the stadium, nor will it be able to take in enough at one time to get any type of idea on how many seats there are. They will not be able to see the forest because all they will see will be the trees (if you'll allow me a little cliche here).
Science has come up with good advances, I don't deny that... but those advances are in small fields such as medicine or other more 'useful' branches of science. I submit that the few advancements that we've been able to accomplish are purely by accident (I use the word 'accident' tongue in cheek, there are no accidents or coincidences, these accidents - or trial and error - are bits of knowledge handed to us by God, technologically we are just where He wants us to be to serve His own purposes). When it comes to the branches of science that try to tackle the big questions like cosmology or evolution, they come up woefully short. A scientist who studies medicine will take their flashlight and focus in extreme detail on one seat in the stadium - thus coming up with useful things to know. The cosmologist tries to see the whole stadium with their low powered flashlight (an analogy for our finiteness) which will be impossible to see the intricate details on how the stadium was made or it's nature.
There *is* an absolute truth out there, but it will not come to us through science. It is good that we want to know the truth, but we need to know the One who is Truth. We as humans can only see the trees, tap into God and ask Him for truth. He is the one that knows the nature of the forest!
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