Hasn't science disproved God?
Science studies how the world works. It can't answer whether the world has a reason to exist at all.
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
Psalm 19:1 · Berean Standard Bible
From a pastor
Short answer: no — and most working scientists wouldn't claim it has. Science is brilliant at telling us how something happens. It can't tell us why there is anything in the first place, or whether your life means something. Those are not science questions; they are wisdom questions, and the Bible has been asking them for three thousand years.
The early scientific revolution was built largely by Christians who believed an orderly God made an orderly world that could be studied. Faith didn't fight science; it gave it permission to look.
Scholar's note
Modern cosmology (the Big Bang, the fine-tuning of physical constants) has actually pushed many physicists back toward asking metaphysical questions their predecessors thought were closed. Arno Penzias (Nobel, 1978), who co-discovered cosmic microwave background radiation, said the best data we have are 'exactly what I would have predicted had I had nothing to go on but the five books of Moses.'
Francis Collins, who led the Human Genome Project, became a Christian as a scientist (The Language of God, 2006). John Lennox at Oxford makes the same case against Richard Dawkins's New Atheism. The conflict thesis (Draper, White, 19th century) is now considered bad history even by secular historians of science.
Sources
- Francis S. Collins, The Language of God (2006)
- John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2007)
- Alister McGrath, The Foundations of Dialogue in Science and Religion (1998)
Sit with this
Is it possible that you've been told science and faith are at war by people with a stake in keeping them apart?
Talk this through