Science and Christianity - a false dichotomy.

Science can tell us all about how the world works ... but not what it all means...

Dr Eric McCreath from ANU spoke at FOCUS this week on Science and Christianity...

and how the apparent disparity between them is not real...

but they cover different things...

For example science tells us what damage a bullet will do to a human body,

but not whether it is right or not.

Science has done great things - but has its own limits ...

Science deals in the realm of objective data and analysis

but it doesn't set its own reason for doing science, nor its own direction..

that is a philosophical or value judgment.

In fact science is about discovering the what and the how of the world God has made for us to explore.

Christianity is about who made it and why we are here.

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For links to the people that Eric mentioned check out:

Francis Collins - interviewed on CNN

John Lennox - on Centre for Public Christianity

Kirsty Birkett - Unnatural Enemies

 new FOCUS series: Life on God's Grid.

I worry that people think Christianity is like life insurance.
Pay your bit each month and God will look after you when you die. 
but...
an encounter with the living God changes your whole frame of reference.

 
Paul encountered the risen Christ on the road to Damascus - and turned from persecuting the church to being the apostle to the Gentiles.

Hence in Phil 3:8 he says: "I consider EVERYTHING a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Jesus Christ my Lord".

Everything else pales into insignificance.....

What does this look like....