Friday, September 19, 2014

God vs. Science

“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”  ...
17 This is what the Lord says: By this you will know that I am the Lord: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.Exodus 7

Have we stopped seeing miracles?  Some things may happen that we have scientific knowledge as to why it happened, and we don't see it as a miracle any more, we see it as science.  We see a rainbow and may think, "How nice," or "It's just the reflection of light in water droplets."  Do we see it and think that it was something designed by God?

What about life?  We may call an unborn child a miracle of life, but we tell ourselves that God didn't really put that child in the mother's womb.  We know the stages of cellular development that happened that formed the embryo, fetus, and child.  So what happened to the miracle?

God made everything around us, including the science that governs everything around us.  God didn't just create the earth, the animals, and man, but God created each of those down to the molecular level.  He knew every piece of every thing he was creating.  There's no way I will believe that it was a random roll of the dice in the universe that happened to put proteins together and *Bang!* there was life.

I love science.  Really, I do.  When I was in school, I loved to study things to find out how and why they worked as they did.  This is why I had a hard time with some of the miracles in the bible.  When I was younger, I'd still want to know how these things happened.  For instance, the Nile turned from water to blood.  The study Bible I'm reading right now gives a scientific reasoning for this.  There are algaes present in the Nile that can change the water to a red coloring.  So, it may have been a sudden abundance of that algae that changed the color and consistency of the Nile, so much so that it killed the plantlife and animals around the Nile.

Is that something I can logically reason?  Absolutely!  About a month ago, the same thing happened outside of Toledo, where an algae bloom cropped up, and the city put a ban on drinking water.  It made people sick, and it harmed the local ecology around Lake Erie.

The point is this: We have all at times asked God for a miracle in our lives.  We don't see any way out of a situation and need God's intervention.  We receive a miracle, but don't see it as a miracle.  We reason it away and don't give the credit to God.  What miracles might you have overlooked because you tried to assign a logical reason to them?  We need to remember that God is the force behind everything, even behind things that have scientific reasons behind them.

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