The evangelistic newspaper of the modern Jesus Army
2009
TOUGH QUESTIONS: HASN'T SCIENCE DISPROVED GOD?
Famous scientists have believed in God - from Newton to Einstein...
But that doesn't stop some vocal atheists these days from claiming that science has somehow "disproved" God.
The universe started with "the big bang"; human beings weren't created, they just evolved; God is just an out-of-date idea.
But is it as simple as that? Streetpaper asked Piers Young, who has an Oxford doctorate in Zoology. He said:
"Evolution isn't the issue. Some of it does work, like natural selection producing varieties of living things. But there are big unanswered questions.
"Take the origin of the universe - what was before the big bang? Something doesn't come from nothing. Or the origin of life - what is the chance of a living cell forming from basic chemicals? Actually there is more chance of a dictionary randomly taking shape from an alphabet soup as big as the Atlantic! Can you get simple things to become more complex - like making an eye that sees in black and white see in full colour - just by mutations?"
The bigger questions are "What is life? Where does it all come from? And what does it mean?
Christians don't base their faith on just scientific "proof" for God: they have met and experienced God in a person: Jesus. God has found them; they haven't "proved" Him, like adding two and two to make four.
But it's worth making it clear - science hasn't disproved God. And for those with eyes to see, science can open up a world of discovery of all the amazing things God has made.
what is the chance of a living cell forming from basic chemicals? Actually there is more chance of a dictionary randomly taking shape from an alphabet soup as big as the Atlantic! Can you get simple things to become more complex - like making an eye that sees in black and white see in full colour - just by mutations?"
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