He Made it All

A lot of people feel that God and science but heads on all issues, and some claim one disproves the other. However, I have found that not only do God and science work together they magnify each other. I was reading Stephen Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time and was struck by the fact that it was almost as much science as philosophy and religion. He mentions God several times throughout the book, but my favorite quote is “It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings just like us” (131). At first you feel like it is a little…out of place, like religion and science are two separate subjects, but when you think about it, God created science. God was the mastermind behind gravity, galaxies, thunderstorms, and elements; not only that be He created mathematics, art, and literature. When people say God buts heads with science they fail to realize God created science, as complicated as our universe is God made it that way. All the weird stuff about black holes and relativity was God’s idea. Isn’t that cool? I mean, if I had one question (well, maybe one of a long list) it would be “how?” Another thing people tend to have issue with is the concept of miracles. People say “Miracles go against science, therefore they are not real.” My answer is that if God is the creator of science, can’t He “change the rules of the game” a bit, if He is the mind behind it He has the right to intervene when He wants to. C.S. Lewis wrote a book called Miracles which I do not remember enough of to post now, but I’ll make a point of rereading it and posting later.