Science does not deny God

Those pushing “Intelligent Design,” over the objections of the vast majority of scientists around the world are attempting to replace knowledge with superstition.

They forget, “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.” They weaken religion, they weaken Faith. Because science will win.

At one time theologians proved the solar system operated like a clock, with movements perfectly aligned. This “clockworks universe” obviously proved the existence of a “Clockmaker.”

Then, in the late 1600s, Sir Isaac Newton showed the law of gravity did not need a Clockmaker to keep planets on their path.

One hundred years before Newton, Galileo Galilei was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment for saying the Earth went around the sun, instead of the sun around the earth, bumping Man from the center of the universe.

One hundred years before Galileo, it was “known” that the world was flat. Some still thought so when Columbus sailed off the edge to find India and discovered America.

The “theory” of Evolution does not prevent pure joy at the miracle of birth, a moonrise or sunset. That the universe obeys “impersonal” laws does not deny God.

We crave significance. But we do not need to find it by pretending that science is not real, that evolution is not the best explanation for the eye of a butterfly.

Evolution does not deny God, any more than Newton, Galileo or Columbus. Some of the greatest scientists in history were of the church. Evolution may in fact give us new ways to appreciate what God has done, what God is still doing. And take God off the hook for cold sores and hemorrhoids.

We do not need to be at the center to appreciate “creation.” Certainly the New Testament has as much relevance today as it did when the words of Jesus were first spoken.

Religion gives us a compass by which to travel, an assist with our burden when pain and loss become too great to bear. It allows man a way to identify with the universe, not bend the universe into the image of man.