This deck covers the intersection of faith and science and covers topics like fideism and scientism. Covers the history of the conflict and intersection of religion and science.

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3. World Views & Apologetics
This Lesson “Faith &
Science”

4. The Crossroads

5. “Apologetics is
knocking down
barriers and
removing the rubble
on the road to the
house of salvation”

6. Col. 2:8 See to it that no one
takes you captive through
philosophy and emptyphilosophy and empty
deceptiondeception according to the
tradition of men, according to
the elementary principles of
the world rather than
according to Christ.

7. Before We Begin:
Knowing God exists is a
matter of Reason.
Having a relationship with
God is a matter of Faith.

8. Where Does Knowledge Come From?
e·pis·te·mol·o·gy
PHILOSOPHY
•the theory of
knowledge, the
investigation of the
nature, sources and
limits of knowledge.

9. What are the candidates ?
Special Revelation
General Revelation
History (Abraham Lincoln)
Experience (relationships)
Human Reasoning (logic, math)
Science

10. What the world “says” it accepts:
History (Abraham Lincoln)
Experience (relationships)
Human Reasoning (logic, math)
Science
What the world smuggles in:

11. What is Science
sci·ence
noun
1.the systematic study of the physical and
natural world through observation and
experiment.
Originally “Scientia”
Latin for Knowledge

12. Faith & Science
Scientism says:
“all knowledge (FACT)
comes from science”

13. All Knowledge Comes
From Science

14. Faith & Science
“Whatever knowledge
is attainable, must be
attainable by scientific
methods, and what
science cannot
discover, mankind
cannot know.”
Bertrand Russel

15. Fact vs OpinionFact vs Opinion

16. The World Says:
The Church Says:

17. The World Says:
Things that come
from Faith:
preferences
opinion
values
religion
subjective
conclusions
Things that
come from
Science:
truth
facts
reason
objective
conclusions

18. How did
this
notion
get
started ?

19. But First:
Why is this important to
you?
Religious knowledge is more and more
relegated to mere opinion
Now going from public importance to
mere private idiosyncratic belief

20. Because YOU will be standing
in the watchtower.
But when did religious knowledge “ever” have
sway in public discourse in America ?
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the
government of any other.” - John Adams

21. How
did this
notion
get
started ?
Now back to:

22. 1700’s Rationalism
“If we take any volume of divinity
or metaphysics, let us ask, Does
it contain any abstract reasoning
concerning quantity or
number? No. Does it contain
any experimental reasoning
concerning matter of fact and
existence? No. Commit it then
to the flames: for it can contain
nothing but sophistry and
illusion.”
David Hume:
Scottish Philosopher 1700’s:

23. But What About?
Love
Beauty
Logic
historyhistoryhistoryhistory
The Scientific
Method

24. This Statement Itself !
“If we take any volume of divinity or metaphysics, let us ask,
Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity
or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning
concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit
it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but
sophistry and illusion.”

25. Faith & Science
“Whatever knowledge
is attainable, must be
attainable by scientific
methods, and what
science cannot
discover, mankind
cannot know.”
Bertrand Russel

26. Faith & Science
But don’t ask me
to prove that
scientifically.

27. Faith & Science
Can Faith and Science
“Co-exist” ?

28. Scientists who thought so . . .
“This most beautiful
system of the sun,
planets and comets,
could only proceed
from the counsel and
dominion of an
intelligent and
powerful Being.”
Isaac Newton

29. The scientist
JOHANNES KEPLER
described science as
"thinking God's
thoughts after Him."
Scientists who thought so

30. French mathematician,
scientist and
philosopher, BLAISE
PASCAL wrote, "Faith
tells us what the senses
cannot, but it is not
contrary to their
findings. It simply
transcends, without
contradicting them."
Scientists who thought so

31. Isaac Newton - mathematics
Francis Bacon - scientific method
Louise Pasteur - microbiologist
James Maxwell - electro-magnetics
Lord Kelvin - thermo-dynamics
Michael Faraday - electro-magnetics
Blaise Pascal - hydrodynamics
Robert Boyle - founder of modern chemistry
Gregor Mendel - genetics
Johannes Kepler - laws of planetary mothion
Scientists who thought so

32. Faith & Science
Why did science begin
in the west?
Monotheistic
Orderly Universe
Subject to Laws

33. Faith & Science
CS Lewis
“Men became scientific
because they expected law
& nature and they expected
law & nature because they
believed in a law giver”

34. Universities Originally based on Theology
Cavendish
Laboratory at
Cambridge
University
James Clark Maxwell
“Great are the works of the Lord,
studied by all who delight in them”

35. Faith & Science
“There isn't anything to worry
about between science and
religion, because the
contradictions are just in your
own mind. But they are not in
the Lord's mind because He
made the whole thing.”
― Henry J. Eyring

36. Science takes it on Faith that:
* our minds can interpret data accurately
* the scientific method works
* the universe is predictable -
* why assume anything in a cosmic
dust blender?

37. Christ upholds the Universe
Hebrews 1:3
And He (Christ) is the radiance
of God’s glory and the exact
representation of His nature, and
upholds all things by the word of
His power.

38. Faith & Science
Therefore (to some degree) -
Science Depends On?
Faith

39. Faith & Science
“But don’t
ask me if
I’m certain
of that.”
“The whole problem with the
world is that fools and fanatics
are always so certain of
themselves, and wiser people so
full of doubts.”
Bertrand Russell

40. Which is easier to believe ?
Someone created everything
out of nothing.
OR
No One created everything out
of nothing.

41. Faith & Science
It take lot’s of faith to be an
atheist.

42. “Science” by Mere Assertion
“The Cosmos is all
that is or was or
ever will be.”
Carl Sagan
Astro-Physicist

43. “Science” by Mere Assertion
But don’t ask
me to prove
that
scientifically.

44. Faith & Science
Ray Comfort Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0u3-2CG

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