There are two contenders for the
history of life on earth: some of naturalism (evolution) or supernatural
creation. Are there really any alternatives to some form of
naturalistic evolution in science if science is restricted to
naturalism?
I will examine Operational Science: a systematic
approach to knowing facts that uses observable, testable, repeatable,
and falsifiable experimentation to understand how nature commonly acts.
Operational science is the type of science that allows us to understand how DNA codes for proteins in cells.
Understanding how those laws operate is the basis for scientific thinking.
Some events defy natural laws. Christians refer to these things as
miracles, but naturalistic science must find a way to explain these
occurrences naturally. This approach rejects miracles in the Bible
because they cannot be explained using natural laws. Such scientists
occasionally try to explain the miracles in the Bible as natural
phenomena but this ultimately undermines the authority of God and His
Word.
If science depends on naturalistic explanation, it must accept
that our thoughts are simply the products of chemical reactions that
evolved from random chance. How can you ultimately rely on randomness to
evolve the correct way of thinking? If there is no God, ultimately,
philosophically, how can one talk about reality? How can one even
rationally believe that there is such a thing as truth, let alone decide
what it is?
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