Science and Religion

When one boils it down to fundamentals, there is a war of worldviews being waged in American society today.  One view is that of the naturalist or materialist that says the natural or material world is all there is.  If science cannot demonstrate it or prove it then is doesn't exist.  That there is nothing outside of or transcendent to the natural world.

The theist and Christian worldview says that there is a personal creator who is transcendent of and separate from the natural world, indeed He created it.

Now what is interesting in this debate is that the naturalist tries to use science to show that belief in God is like believing in the tooth fairy or Santa Claus. That we either believe in the reality of science or we have faith in our religion.  This is really a false choice. 

Today science is becoming a huge part of the development of evidence for theism and the Christian worldview.  Whether you talk about the creation of the universe, the design of the universe, the specificity of design in life, the origin of life, or the historicity of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, science and scientific discovery are making enormous contributions.  The more we know, the more we are led to the worldview that God does exist and that Jesus was who he said he was.

The view that science can play no role in theology is simply wrong. 

It is true that whether it be naturalism or theism/Christianity that you choose there is a leap of faith that needs to occur. But what do you base that leap on? If one bases it on the evidence, much of it scientific evidence, it becomes a greater leap of faith to be a naturalist/atheist than to be a Christian.  As Norm Geisler and Frank Turek said in their book of the same title, "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be An Atheist".