Certainly not! In fact, Christian theologians have often
made mention of God’s two “books” – the Scriptures and His “book” of creation
or revelation through what he has made. And we believe that, if understood as intended,
these two “books” are without contradiction. Therefore, we do not fear that
true science will oppose what He has written.
His book of creation is a revelation that had propelled many
Christians into the sciences to uncover the majestic workings of God through
His creation. However, the myth of an intrinsic opposition between science and
the Bible has been virulently perpetuated by evolutionists looking to squelch
any opposition to their theory. Philosopher and atheist Michael Ruse has
written:
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“Most people think that science and religion
are, and necessarily must be, in conflict. In fact, this ‘warfare’ metaphor, so
beloved of nineteenth-century rationalists, has only a tenuous application to
reality. For most of the history of Christianity, it was the Church that was
the home of science . . . the arrival of evolution, particularly in the form of
Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species, put this tolerance to severe test. But
without denying that there were strong opinions on both sides, the truth seems
to be that much of the supposed controversy was a function of the imagination
of non-believers (especially Thomas Henry Huxley and his friends), who were
determined to slay theological dragons whether they existed or not.”. (The Philosophy of Biology, 1998, pg. 671)
However, this form of “tarring and feathering” of macroevolution-deniers
continues. On countless occasions, I and other Christians have been smeared as “science-deniers”
because we rejected this one highly problematic but militant theory. However,
many courageous evolutionists have also called into question this theory. The
atheist Ruse even claims that it is being proselytized as if it were a
religion:
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“Evolution came into being as a kind of secular
ideology, an explicit substitute for Christianity…an ideology, a secular
religion—a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and
morality... Evolution is a religion.”
This should wake us up to the fact that this isn’t the
science that the evolution establishment claims that it is.
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