We are not opposed as Christians to science.

We are opposed to the claims of scientists that they have reached a final truth that finally disproves the truthfulness of the Bible.

As scientific advances took place over the centuries, the 19th century began to see strong claims against Christianity and against the Bible.

But are Christianity and science really in opposition to each other?

What should we think of anti-Christian scientists and thinkers?

It's good to have you with us for this Saturday edition of renewing your mind.

I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham.

We began several Saturdays ago in the early church,

and today we're in the 19th century.

This really is a whirlwind taste of W. Robert Godfrey's six-part monumental study series on church history.

Today, we're featuring a message from his fifth installment to the series on the 19th century.

And you can add this installment to your collection when you give a donation of any amount at

renewingyourmind.org before midnight tonight.

Well, here's Dr. Godfrey, on the rise and influence of biblical criticism,

Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, and others.

The rise of natural science, the rapid advance of natural science in the West that has led to so many remarkable accomplishments in our time, whether we think of astronomy or medicine, so many things that have changed, that development of science really

began in the 17th century, moved on into the 18th century, and began to develop an even

more rapid pace in the 19th and, of course, 20th centuries.

In the 17th and 18th century, Christianity and the developments of natural

science were seen as completely compatible and friendly. Indeed, many of the finest scientists

of that period were Christians, some of them even clergymen. And so the notion that there is a necessary or inevitable

opposition between Christianity and science is just a false dichotomy, a false opposition.

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