Below is another devotion from my friend Michael Neveu.
Summary:
The Bible is not the enemy of science. It is the enemy of the philosophical assumption that science can answer every question worth asking.
1. Science Studies the Creation. Scripture Identifies the Creator.
The Bible begins with an astonishingly uncomplicated sentence: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).
That is not a laboratory procedure. It is an ontological claim: reality had a beginning, creation is not God, and the universe exists because something beyond the universe caused it to exist.
Science asks how physical things behave. Scripture asks why there is a physical universe available to investigate in the first place.
Those questions are not competitors.
A microscope can examine a cell, but it cannot determine why truth matters. A telescope can photograph a galaxy, but it cannot tell us why mathematics describes that galaxy with such eerie precision. “The heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1). Creation is therefore not something Christianity tells us to fear. It is something Christianity tells us to examine.
2. The Real Collision Is Between Christianity and Scientism.
Science is a method. Scientism is a philosophy.
Science says, “We can measure this.” Scientism quietly adds, “Therefore only measurable things are real.” That second statement is not science. Nobody discovered it under a microscope. Love cannot be weighed. Justice cannot be photographed. Human dignity has no chemical formula. Yet civilized people rightly recognize all three as real. Romans 1:20 argues that creation points beyond itself to the Creator. The Bible therefore welcomes investigation while refusing to pretend that matter is the only category of reality.
The enemy is not the laboratory. The enemy is the metaphysical smuggling operation that enters wearing a lab coat.
3. Christianity Actually Expects an Intelligible Universe.
Scientific investigation depends upon extraordinary assumptions:
nature behaves consistently,
human reason can understand it,
mathematics corresponds to reality,
and repeated observation tells us something meaningful.
Christianity has an explanation for that confidence.
Creation is ordered because its Creator is rational. Human beings can investigate it because they are made in His image (Genesis 1:27).
That does not make every Christian scientific claim correct. Christians can misread evidence just as scientists can overreach their evidence. Humans remain remarkably democratic about making mistakes.
Conclusion:
The Bible does not tell Christians to extinguish reason. It gives reason a foundation.
Science can describe mechanisms magnificently. Scripture addresses the deeper questions science was never designed to answer:
Who made this?
Why are we here?
What is a human being?
What is good?
And what happens when we die?
Science examines fingerprints. The Bible tells us whose hand they belong to.
The Bible is not afraid of the microscope. It is merely unimpressed when the microscope declares itself God.
P. S.
I pray you will take a look at a great new book written by Michael Neveu on Holy Communion. I have read this unique book and highly recommend it. It is available from Amazon. The link below will take you to his book: