BELIEVABLE

A SOUND FAITH:

SCIENCE

What is Science?

Science is a systematical and logical approach to discovering how things in the physical universe work.

The systematical and logical approach involves observation and experimentation.

What are the limitations of science?

Five things science cannot prove• Existential Truth• Moral Truth• Logical Truth• Experiential Truth• Historical Truth

Absolute Truth

• God’s Truth– God revealed His truth to us in

nature (spoken word).– God revealed His truth to us in

Scripture (written word).

Job 38:31-33“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades?

Can youloosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth theconstellations in their seasons or lead out

the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?”

1 Corinthians 1:18For the word of the cross is folly to

those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design

• Large Scale (universe)• Small Scale (cellular level)• Within the Human Soul

What comes before H?

What does science say about this?

• Universe began a finite time ago.– Time began some time ago.• Electromagnetic radiation emanated

from nothingness.

Albert Einstein

• “I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details.” Albert Einstein– Energy and mass are connected. • E = mc2

And God said, “Let there be light”.

And God said, “Let there be light”.

• Genesis 1:1– “In the beginning God created the heavens

and the earth.”

• Genesis 1:21– “So God created the great creatures of the

sea and every living thing with which the water teems…”

• Genesis 1:27– “So God created mankind in his own image…”

The English Language

• Thar wus a kar.• There was a car.

An Author?

• DNA (AGCT)Codon (amino acid)

ProteinOrgan

Organ SystemOrganism

• Letters (26)Words

SentenceParagraph

ChapterNovel

Evidence within the Human Soul

We cannot quench our thirst for understanding.

Psalm 19:1-3“The heavens declare the glory of

God; the skies proclaim the work of his

hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night

after night they reveal knowledge. They have

no speech,they use no words; no sound is

heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into

all the earth,their words to the ends of the

world.”