Why do so many people think of science vs the Bible instead of science as a way to enjoy God's creation?

Answer 1

Religion by definition requires faith. Faith and science are fundamentally incompatible.

Science is based on Natural Laws. Religion on faith alone. If you require proofs for what you believe in, then the word "Faith" is only an illusion.

AnswerNot all people think this way. The Christians who helped to found modern science, believed they were 'thinking God's thoughts after him'. Johannes Kepler specifically dedicated his works to the glory of God. Sir Isaac newton, who some consider the greatest scientist who ever lived wrote more on theology than science. He also used the design in the universe to witness to colleagues regarding the maker of it. Werner Von Braun while at NASA sought to give God the glory as the creator of the universe which he was helping to explore.

The division which today exists in many minds between science and religion, some trace to the philosophy of Francis Bacon who sought to separate the two. Yet, the specifically anti-supernatural, anti-god, philosophy of Naturalism or just plain Atheism drives the thinking of many, Richard Dawkins being a good example. Thus the division is really in the mind of the person, in their presuppositions, not in reality.

Many Christians who are scientists in various fields of research, including world-leaders, do indeed give God the glory for their work and discoveries.

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Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

English physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher, considered one of the most important scientists of all time

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

-- Isaac Newton, letter to a Friend, later published by Bishop Horsley, quoted from John E Remsberg, The Christ, p. 259, after Erasmus had inserted the following passage, the only to teach Trinitarianism, into his second edition of his New Testament: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one" (I John v, 7).

What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."

-- Isaac Newton, letter to a Friend, later published by Bishop Horsley, quoted from John E Remsberg, The Christ, p. 263

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

-- Isaac Newton, letter to a Friend, later published by Bishop Horsley, quoted from John E Remsberg, The Christ, p. 263

The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.

-- Isaac Newton, quoted from John E Remsberg, The Christ, p. 345-6

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

-- Isaac Newton, quoted from John Stear, No Answers in Genesis

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Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

German astronomer who discovered that planetary orbits are ellipses

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

-- Johannes Kepler, Astronomia nova, 1609, quoted from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief

When miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

-- Johannes Kepler, from Rufus K Noyes, Views of Religion, quoted from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief