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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Are Science and Faith Compatible?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Tim Barnett discusses the compatibility of faith and science by first defining “faith” and “science” and then exploring the three problems a naturalist has to overcome in order to explain how even a single, small protein could come about on its own by chance.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to see. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. This week Greg Kockel is away, but don't worry, as Greg would say, we're not going to leave you as orphans.

0:38.0

In fact, we have something special for you.

0:41.0

What you're going to hear is a talk I gave a few years ago at the

0:44.5

reality apologetic student conference. In this presentation I discussed the

0:48.8

question, are science and faith compatible? Sadly, there are many who believe Christianian science are enemies.

0:56.0

They've bought into the lie that we must choose between science and God.

1:01.0

Even worse, this has become an obstacle of the Gospel.

1:05.0

Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.

1:08.0

Faith in the Christian God is not a science stopper.

1:11.0

In fact, history shows that it was the modern science starter. So over the next hour,

1:17.1

I want to do three things. First, I want to correct a mistaken idea about what faith is. While it's true that blind faith is

1:24.8

antithetical to science, biblical faith is perfectly compatible with science.

1:29.7

After given a short case for biblical faith, as believing in what you have good reason to believe is true,

1:36.2

we're going to move on to science. So second, I want to talk about what science is.

1:41.0

While entire courses are designed to answer this question, I merely want to show you

1:46.1

that science as a methodology is at home in the Christian worldview. In fact, ases Lewis says, men became scientific because they expected law in nature

1:56.6

and they expected law in nature because they believed in a law giver.

2:01.3

Finally, I want to illustrate one example showing how science points to an intelligent

2:06.2

designer. Some of the most exciting scientific discoveries of the 20th and 21st centuries

2:12.3

all point to a god. Don't take my word for it.

2:16.3

Listen to why philosopher Anthony Flue came to believe in God. In his book, There is a God, how the world's most notorious atheist changed his mind he

2:26.0

writes I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite

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