I want to spend all of today on one new subject:

There is a deep theological word used to describe that type of thinking:

Ba- lon-ey

The reality is…and here comes another one of my super strong statements in this series:

3) If Jesus had never been born…science (definition) would very possibly have never come into being!

Are you trying to suggest that if Jesus had never been born we might be sitting right now in a room with candles on wooden seats. This video technology might not exist, this audio technology might not exist……

Yes….yes I am!

The unbelieving scientist today would say that Christianity and science are antithetical …they are opposites they have nothing to do with each other. A person has to choose between believing in the superstitious acceptance of the unseen or in the provable acceptance of what is seen.

We Christians, on the other hand, would believe that science, which comes from the Latin term Scientia- knowledge, has a direct link to the attribute of our God called, in Latin, omni-science; all knowledge.

Doesn’t that mean that instead of science and theology being opposites; that science is, in fact, an extension of theology? Yes….unless of course, somewhere along the way in discovering our world, we lost the sense of a divine Creator who fashioned everything we are seeking to understand. The Bible says:

If you believe all of those Scriptures, you start out with the assumption that all of science is directly linked to God himself, all truth is God’s truth! If you reject all of those Scriptures then your free to say that all truth is derived from the discoveries of science.

Let me just toss out here for you inquiring minds…. That before the flood, when man was still strongly affected by the directness to God creating his image into Adam and Eve, there may have been a very high level of scientific knowledge. Scientist Ken Ham actually shows ancient drawings, in his presentation, of machines that look suspiciously like our airplanes: that predate the Tower of Babel and the Flood…. Whatever high level of understanding mankind had in the years right after creation, it was lost after the flood.

About 600 years before Jesus was born the Greeks began to show an interest in the world around them. Up until that time people kind of said; I’m hungry, there’s an animal, let’s eat!… or… There’s a big ball of fire in the sky, I don’t understand it…let’s make it something we worship!

If you studied Greek philosophy from Aristotle and Socrates and others, you know that they became very inquisitive about their world and they wanted to apply this new found “reason” to the world around them. It did not, however, lead them to want to experiment to find out how the universe worked. The didn’t progress from reason on to science…

It’s also true that science did not start with the Hebrews of Bible times. The Hebrews saw the awesomeness of God’s creation as a reason to worship their Creator. They weren’t so interested in figuring out why or how the universe worked; they were content to praise God that the universe did work.

That is why the Bible is often not considered a book of science. The writers had no built-in curiosity about how the universe was constructed. They were far more interested in finding out more about Who constructed it!

So neither the Greeks nor the Hebrews led us to try to better understand our world…who did?

The Arabians didn’t…the Muslims and their forefathers believe/d that everything is fatalistically determined. There is no point in trying to change the natural world since most everything is predetermined and unchangeable.

The Animist of Africa and other places sure didn’t lead the was into experimentation of the natural world…they believed that the spirits of various God’s lived in the trees and rocks. They sure weren’t going to delve into that.

The Hindus and the Buddhist teach that the greatest thing any one can learn in this live is that the world around them is not real…that reality is found the world’s soul. There would be no point in spending one’s life experimenting on something that has no reality in the first place.

It was (drum roll) Christianity, in the 16th century that produced the foundations of what we now know as modern science!

Science is based on the fact that if water boils at 212 degrees today, it will boil at 212 degrees tomorrow and the next day, and the next day…..

Until Christianity came along there was no basis for anyone in the world to accept absolutes. In a world of relativism, where everything is whatever you imagine it to be… there can be no scientific thought or discovery.

In order for there to be something for science to study, there has to be something stable and unchanging enough, that it will produce the same exact results over and over and over.

You may remember the flap that took place in the early 1600’s when Copernicus and Galileo began to suggest theories about the universe that did not fit with the status quo. The Catholic Church literally brought a trial to stop the heresy, but that was the beginning of the Reformation period and the Lutherans, the first Protestants were the one’s who distributed Copernicus’ book that paved the way for scientific development.

One of the first organizations that propelled scientific study forward was the:

Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge- founded in Gresham Christian College in 1660. Seven of the ten scientist at the center of the program were Puritans, the same batch that helped settle the USA.

One of the great Christian scientists who helped get the ball rolling in the early 1600’s was a man named Johannes Kepler. He’s the one who coined the phrase:

Sound a lot like our scientists of today??/

Blaise Pascal: (mathematics, probability science, first barometer) (1623- 1662)- “Faith tells us what the senses cannot, but it is not contrary to their findings. It simply transcends, without contradicting them.”- “Jesus Christ is the only proof of the living God, we only know God through Jesus Christ!

Isaac Newton (Father of Calculus and Dynamics) (1642-1727)-= “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.”

Yes Pastor…how long did it take to dig through all the early scientist and find three who believed in God and were in fact committed Christians???

Not very long…..

These Christian scientists founded their branch of science:

Antiseptic surgery: Joseph Lister

Bacteriology: Louis Pasteur

Calculus: Isaac Newton

Celestial Mechanics: Johannes Kepler

Chemistry: Robert Boyle

Comparative Anatomy Georges Cuvier

Computer Science Charles Babbage

Dimensional Analysis Lord Rayleigh

Electronics John Fleming

Electrodynamics James Maxwell

Electro-magnetics Michael Faraday

Energetics Lord Kelvin

Entomology of Living Insects Henri Fabre

That takes us clear through the 5th letter of the alphabet…..

Anybody who tries to tell you that the basis of science is anything other than us simply finding out what God already knows are themselves living in a world of confusion.

(Isaiah 29:15-16) Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD, And their works are in the dark; They say, "Who sees us?" and, "Who knows us?" Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; For shall the thing made say of him who made it, "He did not make me"? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"? (NKJV)

John Calvin said that the Bible is the spectacles that we must put on to rightly understand the book of nature. In fact God has given us a perfect three-fold pathway to truth:

1) Theology - Special Revelation

The Bible gives us a lot of revelation about God, then we are left to form theology. It gives us a lot of the history of God‘s dealing‘s with mankind but we are left to fit that into the balance of human history and draw conclusions. Then the Bible a lays the complete groundwork for us understanding the third, (science) but we are left to explore our universe and, in awe, discover “God’s thoughts after Him.”

If we try to pursue any of these three without using the infallible word of God as our source, the results of our study will go awry. Those who study theology apart from the Bible as their foundation end up in heresy. Those who look at history apart from the unfolding plan of God can end us like Saddam Hussein. Those who look at science as anything other than God’s truth end up, like Charles Darwin with a theory that brings spiritual chaos to the entire world.

(Romans 1:18-22) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, (NKJV)

To show you how screwy a Godless focus to science is: