Get Real November 16 Devotional
November 16, 2024
The fact that science and faith seem to be reconciled and complimentary for many scientists should not surprise anyone who has studied the history of science. Scientific method developed in a European-wide conversation among a particular set of men, and many of them were believers. In fact, the Christian conception of God as creator was a crucial impetus in the rise of the scientific outlook. The idea of the Logos, explored in John Chapter One, claims that the creator and the universe are rational and explicable. The “Word” is a title for Jesus by when all things were made, and it means rational order. Further, since you and I are made in God’s image, we are equipped to discover this order—indeed we are called to the quest. Science, for early pioneers like Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Gottfried Leibniz, Blaise Pascal, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Francis Bacon, was a form of service to God and a spiritual quest. The rationality of the universe meant there were laws to be discovered and patterns to be found, and this order was rooted in the mind of God.
Why then do you think some scientists are hostile to faith?
FAMILY TIME—
What are you curious about?
Talk about the gift of curiosity and how it encourages us to explore our world.
