Evidence for God from Science

For me, wrestling with the ideas presented in these talks and books was slow and emotionally challenging. I faced many hard questions: What was I resisting, and why? Did I fear a spiritually precarious compromise with secular ideas? Where did I get the idea that science is secular, anyway? How do the most respected scientist-Christians and theologians reconcile faith and science? How might my views of scripture and of God change? What would other Christians think about me?

I now believe the apparent conflict arises not from nature and the Bible, but from flawed interpretations of scientific data and from misunderstandings of scripture. For example, some people claim that evolution proves there is no God, even though the existence of God is not a scientific question. Others regard Genesis 1 and 2 as modern scientific or journalistic accounts, despite the fact that Genesis far predates our modes of historical and scientific writing. The conflict does not come from God or nature—we have created the conflict ourselves. Intentionally or not, we often extend science past its natural bounds and use the Bible for questions it does not intend to answer.

PaulSacramento wrote:Biologos is one of my favorite websites.
It is heart warming to see people of science AND religion, trying to understand and reconcile on their OWN terms without basing on what they are TOLD by others.
It is fascinating that the great theologians and apologists of Christian history share the same "process".
To see that all that we discuss and debate NOW has been discussed and debated THEN as well is quite interesting.
Seems like the "old controversies" keep coming around and for the same reasons.