God, the Bible, and Science

by Travis L Quertermous

From The Reminder, December 18, 2011

One often hears of the supposed conflict between science and the Bible. We are told by many scientists and philosophers that one simply cannot accept the conclusions of modern science and the miracles of the Bible. One must choose one or the other—it must be either science or faith.

But if one considers the who’s who of science, the great pioneers and inventors who literally founded modern science, we find that they were all devout believers in God, Jesus Christ, and the Bible. Moreover, they were all outspoken creationists. These scientists include men like Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, Sir Isaac Newton, Rene Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Antoine Lavosier, Anton Van Leewoenhoek, Blaise Pascal, Edward Jenner, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, Louis Agassiz, Lord Kelvin, the Wright Brothers, Enrico Marconi, Alexander Fleming, and Werner Von Braun, among many, many others who could be named. None of these great scientists and inventors saw any conflict between science and the Bible. In fact, they were all inspired in their work as scientists by their faith. Johann Kepler, for example, once defined science as “thinking God’s thoughts after him.”

True, some important scientists, like Darwin, Freud, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Stephen Hawking, were unbelievers. But they are in the minority. The truth is that God is the author of both nature and Scripture. When we interpret both correctly, they always compliment one another. But let us heed the apostle Paul’s warning of “science falsely so called” (1 Tim. 6:21) as well as Jesus’ warning against false prophets who come to us as wolves in sheep’s clothing (Matt. 7:15).