Using Science to Find God
Here is the first in a series of email replies I sent my friends after I sent them some links about dinosaur tissue finds:
I know how science works. I also know the difference between conjectures, hypothesis, and theories and the how you get from one to the other. I also learned from the same school as you that it takes a lot of different kinds of repeatable tests to prove a theory and only one repeatable contradictory test to disprove one. Now, I’m not saying that the soft tissue issue is the one contradictory evidence against evolution or the old age of Earth. I included non-creationist article of the same find and other related articles in my email in hopes of understanding soft tissue decay and fossilization.
I only sited the articles to say that people have an accepted view of something that they believe. When new data and new information come up that might be contradictory, they wave it off as something that must fit into their belief instead of stepping back to take a look at it and how it relates. Scientists are not the only ones I’m talking about, creationists do they same thing, as you have pointed out.
This passage really expresses how I feel about my search for the truth.
The divinely inspired word of God is infallible. Likewise, the divinely created creation is an “infallible” testimony of God’s work, Romans 1:19-20. Both are true representations of the Divine. While both these revelations are infallible, both require human understanding to have any meaning to us. This is where the real problem lies. Both our understanding of the scriptures and our understanding of the creation are fallible. Both change. Historically, I believe it is a fair representation that religious men have just as poor a track record for properly understanding scripture, as any review of the history of science could provide. This is certainly evidenced by the modern diversity of Christian religions. Such misunderstanding of scripture is illustrated over and over throughout the pages of the Bible itself. In the Old Testament the Israelites did not understand their own religion. In the New Testament the Pharisees did not understand the basics of love and justice. Indeed, Jesus’ own disciples did not understand the most fundamental aspects of His kingdom. Religious people get religion wrong just as readily as scientists get their science wrong. Let’s not get into a rock throwing contest as to which discipline is better at making and maintaining unfounded dogma. The truth is that both scientists and believers have to change our views to accommodate our growth in understanding of the infallible word of God and improved knowledge of the unchangeable testimony of His creation. To be able to change when shown wrong is sign of wisdom, not weakness.
Hill Roberts – http://lordibelieve.org/Days.htm
If you are anything like I was, I want you to always be searching and seeking instead of just believing in what we grew up with. I always just relied on what I “knew” as fact and readily dismissed any opposing view. I have come to be a little more diligent in trying to find what really is out there, why we are here, and what the truth is.
I am not blindly following some guy’s teaching. I am searching for why we exist. Why are we here if there is nothing beyond? If we all came from one cell and a bunch of random mutation, just some intelligent animals, and there is nothing after death, then what are we doing? Trying to make a better life? Why don’t I just go out and do what I want, live the way I want to, instead of sitting here working for someone else? I can lie, steal, cheat and do what I want. But what about morals? Where did my morals come from? The law? No, man created rules and regulations. Then who? Animals don’t have morals. If there is nothing after I die, no repercussions, why not do what I want since I won’t have to answer to anything or anybody afterwards. There has to be something more out there.
I am using the intelligence and the logical mind that God has given me to find facts and evidences that will help me to think through it and to decide. For me the evidence is pointing towards God and His unfailing Word.
Secular historians and archeological finds all support the Bible. There is no evidence out there that can prove even one verse of the Bible to be false. In fact, your links led me to more sites and more information that defined and solidify my faith.
One of the greatest evidence is my life. After accepting Jesus into my heart, I have become a new person. You all know what I was like before I was born again, now, I’m living in Christ, living for God.
I probably quoted this before, but “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
Start searching, don’t be complacent in your life or your beliefs, God will open doors and lead you to the truth.