Hasn’t Science Disproved Christianity?

–Christopher Hitchens

“Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation to

anything.”

–Russell Cowburn, Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge University

“Understanding more of science doesn’t make God smaller. It allows us to see His creative

activity in more detail.”

“Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.”

Jeremiah 33:3

Hasn’t Science Disproved Christianity?

Christianity

and the Birth of Science

as the New Paradigm

–Leslie Newbigin, from his book “Proper Confidence”

“Ultimate reality was no longer unknowable; it was available to us in the person of Jesus

Christ.”

Early Scientists

Galileo

Sir Isaac Newton

Copernicus

Roger Bacon

William of Ockham

Sir Francis Bacon

From Science to ScientismHow did we get from Newton to Hawking?

Old Atheists

Charles Darwin

Sigmund Freud

Karl Marx

Frederick Nietzche

New Atheists

Christopher Hitchens

Richard Dawkins

Sam Harris

Daniel Dennet

Christians Who Were Crucial Scientific Contributors

- Sir Isaac Newton - Sir Francis Bacon - Sir Joseph J. Thomson, the founder of atomic physics. - Max Planck, the founder of quantum physics. - Gregor Mendel, the founder of modern genetics. - James Clerk Maxwell, the founder of classical electromagnetic theory (whose contributions to science are regarded to be of the same magnitude as those of Newton and Einstein). - Louis Pasteur, the founder of microbiology and immunology. - Robert Boyle, the founder of modern chemistry. - Allan Sandage, the father of modern astronomy. - Werner Heisenberg, the founder of quantum mechanics - Charles Babbage, the mathematician and inventor considered to be “the father of the computer for his invention of the first computer.

How Does Science Fall Short?

–Vince Vitale, “Jesus Among Secular Gods”

“The HOW question (a question of mechanism) does not answer the WHO question (a question of agency), and

it also doesn’t answer the WHY question (a

question of purpose).”

Our value, according to the construct of atheistic evolution, is only that which enables us to survive.

Our value as “imago dei” is assigned to us by God; as believers we understand the Gospel to show that our value lies not in our productivity (my worth is not in what I own), but given to us regardless of ability or productivity by a sovereign God.

–Ian Hutchinson MIT Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

"I am an assembly of electrons and quarks interacting though quantum chromodynamics and the electroweak forces; I am a heterogeneous mixture of chemical elements... I am a system of biochemical processes guided by genetic codes; but I am also a vast and astoundingly complex organism of cooperating cells; I am a mammal, with hair and warm blood; I am a person, husband, lover, father; and I am a sinner saved by grace.”

–Sir Francis Bacon

“God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the

first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book call creation.”

The heavens declare the

glory of God, and the sky

above proclaims his handiwork.”

Psalm 19:1

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