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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Have a Little Faith

By Ken Connor at townhall.com

image[ “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Mat 17:20 ]

… Over the last few centuries, our society has come to believe that there exists a fundamental incompatibility between faith and science. Fueled by the works of polemics like Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Bill Maher (the proud Unholy Trinity) there now reigns an assumption that people who believe in God are intellectually primitive, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who have failed to evolve beyond the superstitions of the past. Faith, the substance of things hoped for, is pitted against science, the substance of things measured, tested, and proven…

It's good to see that the zeitgeist that drives scientific investigation has begun slowly to "evolve," and that we may be moving towards a time when once again science and faith are understood as complementary and intertwining components of a larger conception of the world. There was a time when theology was considered the queen of the sciences, the raison d'etre for all other systematic pursuits of knowledge. Early scientists were confident that there was an order in the universe imposed by its Creator and that this order was intelligible. It was this understanding that guided them as they embarked on groundbreaking courses of discovery. A love of knowledge and a desire to explore God's creation through the discipline of science need not alienate us from our Creator; on the contrary, it should draw us closer to Him.

After centuries of hegemony in an increasingly secular world, it is ironic that faith – faith in the right thing – may be the only thing that can restore credibility to the world of science.

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