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Science and technology have made great progress, and we now enjoy their benefits to an extent that our ancestors could not have imagined. This causes many people to hope that science will one day find an answer to all our problems. Some scientists have even made claims that the the current gap we have in knowledge will soon be covered so that after that there will not be any need to propose God as an explanation for anything more. But this has not happened, and let us be clear that this will never happen. Why? Because scientists have made some wrong fundamental assumptions which ensure that this gap will remain.

Defining science as the "systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained," their mistake at the starting point itself is that they consider only the physical and natural world in their quest for knowledge. In this way they completely ignore the spiritual world which is also a reality in which we live. God has existed from eternity, and He is the one who created the physical and natural world and all their laws. When He has been excluded, how can we ever expect to understand the world completely? Doesn't this explain why scientists are always coming short in their theories and explanation, having to frequently discard and revise them? Imagine scientifically studying a multi-dimensional phenomenon after discarding the most important dimension to start with! It is not just God that is ignored, but also the spirit in man apart from his body and mind (soul - Gk. psuche), angels and demons.

A Christian scientist has pointed out that actually scientists do not even know how to describe 'life' while they go on explaining how life started from chemicals. For example, when a living cell dies, scientists cannot explain what the cell just lost, with all the chemicals remaining intact in the cell, and what they can add back to the cell to bring it to life!

Another serious mistake some scientists make when they try to understand the origin of the world is to assume that all the natural laws that can be observed now have always been like that. Won't things immediately begin to become clear if they thought that it was God who created those laws and He could have used different laws earlier? Even recently He has shown that He can instantly turn water into wine! So, imagine how God who created and fine tuned the whole universe to make conditions suitable for man on earth, did not need to wait for billions of years for light to reach earth from distant stars!

If these scientists had included God as a part of reality, how much easier, more realistic and more complete their studies would have become! But they are determined to keep God out of the picture, so that they won't have to be accountable to Him (Ro.14:12). Therefore they are not even able to be honest to themselves as scientists.

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