Today’s blog title is NOT a dismissal of the importance of
science. Science does have its place…and
that is not every place. The legitimacy of science as the disciplined
exploration of events within the natural (physical) order is indeed vulnerable
to illegitimate attacks regarding the extent of its actual authority. I hope it
is clear that I give science I high level of weight. As I have stated very recently, the Bible
itself does the same. The Apostle Paul wrote
that people will be judged for their failure to receive the natural order as
true testimony to the history of the world (Romans 1:18f).
Yet science is not the only means of conveying
truth. The Bible points to at least two
other means. The first is through
revelation (God expressing His will through the words of Holy Scripture—2 Timothy
3:16). And the second is what has been
called “natural law,” that is, the testimony of right and wrong. “Natural law” conveys an understanding of
morality that has been embraced not only by Christians, but also by highly-renowned
non-Christian philosophers across history.
Romans chapter two discusses this reality at the very practical
level. Science does not speak
specifically to the value of a human being.
Neither does it speak to matters of right and wrong. These are not its areas of authority. But speak on these two matters, we must. In order to do this clearly we must listen to
our consciences, but even more so, to the higher Word of the One who made us, God
who is revealed in the Holy Bible.
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