Q) Can science disprove miracles?
A) No. They are beyond the realm of scientific inquiry. However, we have been able to test some "miracles" through science and found that they are within natural causes. If we assume that anything God created is supernatural, then there are no natural or supernatural occurrences. If, on the other hand, we assume that everything is natural, then everything that we deem "supernatural" we will one day find the natural cause of.
i.e.) Ancient cultures thought many phenomenon we now deem "natural" were the result of spiritual forces. Therefore, humans make the distinction between natural and supernatural.
-God is also not testable-
Supernatural: We cannot understand.
Natural: We can understand.
Evolution vs Intelligent Design:
-Evolution does NOT explain everything, we have to add in culture (reality is socially constructed), and memes.
-Energy CAN be created and destroyed on the micro-level from nothing and into nothing.
-We are only as efficient as the dating techniques and technologies we employ.
-There is a difference between "micro" and "macro" evolution. Most Christians now accept micro-evolution but still find it hard to justify macro-evolution.
-We can only work within what we know today; we are only as advanced as the scientific techniques we employ. Therefore, our ideas can and will change over time.
-Where did the "useless" parts in our bodies come from? Holdovers from evolutionary processes or perfect designs that we see as flawed because we are only human?
-God created a perfect design, but humans aren't perfect. We live in a fallen world.
Other big questions:
Who directs evil? Who controls Satan?
What is the difference between magic and a miracle?
If all Christians have the same Holy Spirit living within them, who speaks for God, then why doesn't everyone, after praying earnestly, come to the same conclusion about specifically moral issues?
-We are fallen and it effects how we view God.
-We have to discern what happens and what God says, there is a human component.
-We all bring personal assumptions and biases with us.
-How then can we trust anything? Even if the Bible says so, how do we know that they had a better connection to God?
Finite vs. infinite:
God = infinite
Man = finite
-You do not believe in God, you believe in your concept of God because, based on the following equation, you don't know anything about God.1/ (infinity) = 0
-God revealed something about himself in the Bible.
My husband is a scientist so he has really likes to talk about this stuff. I guess the only thing i can really say is that science is about taking the most reasonable theory and testing it. God is not testable. Faith is not testable. Belief and miracles aren't really testable. But evolution is. And as more knowledge and techniques for research become available, if science as a whole determines that evolution has been disproved then a new theory will emerge and be tested. That is science.
ReplyDeleteThis is why so many scientists will say that Science and Religion are not the same thing and can't be taught together. because science has a method and you can only count something as science if it follows the rules of science (you know, observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion). Creationism doesn't and can't follow the rules of science so many scientist draw the logical conclusion that it isn't science. And it is OKAY for Science to be different than Religion. They don't have to agree, they are completely different things.
But so many science minded people can not remedy what they observe with what the Bible says whether they are the same or not. Many times I can not remedy what I see and what the Bible says and I am nowhere near as scientifically minded as most of the people my family hangs out with.