A Christian response to faith and Science
Channel: andrew schmidt
Date: 2014-06-17

This week I would like to address the question of science and Christianity.
It comes up fairly frequently in class, where students present the scenario where they feel the need to choose between science, or a scientific world view and faith, or a Christian world view.
I understand where the image can come from.  In the context of the Christian faith, it probably starts with the early church's response to Galileo and the view of a sun centred solar system. It was no doubt compounded by the approach of many Christians to Darwinian evolution, as proposed in 'The Origin of Man' by Charles Darwin. 
In recent times the New Atheists, men like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss, have made some compelling arguments against Christians who treat the Bible as though it is a science text, and in those arguments I believe they are correct. In their associated assumptions, less so.
Some people reconcile the two sides by arguing that faith and science are dealing with two separate unconnected aspects of human life. I have to admit some sympathy for that view, but it feels like it consigns Christianity, which in my experience is a living vibrant experience, to the realm of the hobbyist. 
I prefer to think of them more as occasional conversation partners inspiring the other to new and different views of God and the natural order, sometimes challengers when either would go astray, and sometimes friends in seeking solutions to the earths concerns.