And my boldness in witnessing has abounded. And I can understand why Dr Francis Schaeffer ascribed the demise of the Christian consensus to the failure of evangelicals to embrace the inerrancy of God's Word. Many young people today regard the Bible as disproved by science. The verbal contortions of the theologians who try to marry evolution and Genesis are unintelligible to them and only serve to confirm their skepticism. As one trained in the biological sciences, I find the willingness of theologians to bow down to the modern golden calf of 'science' somewhat perplexing.
Scientists are just as much fallen, fallible, 'desperately wicked' as anyone else.
Science can be used by satan as much as any other human activity. Science, and especially the pseudo-sciences of historical geology and evolutionary biology, are not above and beyond the depravity of the human heart. Scripture should sit in judgement upon such 'science' and not vice versa. I have seen the ministry of the Creation Science Foundation instrumental in transforming ineffective Christians into bold witnesses, willing to 'stand up for Jesus'. I have also seen skeptical young people made willing to listen to the Gospel and accept God's love in Christ Jesus.