A new Sunday Morning offering from David Pruessner.

Beginning October 5 and continuing through November 16.

Room 1 in the Sunday School wing. 

Reading the book is optional!

Does modern science contradict our faith in God, or compliment it?

Science and Christianity have sometimes clashed. Modern cosmologists now largely agree that we live in a “finely tuned universe.” Many factors seem to have been crafted “just right” for life to form on Earth. But, what does that mean? Come explore your faith through new lenses.  

Richard Dawkins, author and scientist, submits that belief in God is delusional. In his book, The God Delusion, he advances several arguments that belief in God is irrational. He concludes that our world is random; having neither design nor designer. Others disagree. Scientists, including Carl Sagan and Sir Fred Hoyle, have insisted that our universe is not random. Instead, our universe is “intelligent.” And, our universe seems to have been “finely tuned” to make both physical matter and life possible. If any of a dozen factors (such as the strength of the “gravitational constant” or nature of Carbon 12 had been different), then life would not exist on earth. The Christian conclusion: our universe seems to have been “finely tuned” by a creator, i.e. God.

All of these scientists focus only on the physical world - the world that can be objectively tested and measured. However, as philosophy, psychology, and religion constantly remind us, there is another world. The great French scientist Blaise Pascal taught that we live in two worlds. He was a fervent Christian. He taught that one world is our physical world, which we experience via our rational mind and empirical examination. The other is an unseen world, which we experience via intuitive knowledge. This unseen world holds “matters of the heart” and includes philosophy, love, justice, and our faith in God.  Under Pascal’s philosophy, intuitive matters of the heart are just as authentic as the scientific/empirical world. Pascal saw no conflict between his faith and his rational/scientific pursuits. They are both instrumental in finding truth. C.S. Lewis also pursued this line of inquiry - looking in to our intuition for insight. In his writings, he refers to "Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe.”  He logically deduces that our omnipresent sense of right and wrong – which spans all civilizations – is a major “clue” to the fact that our universe had a purposeful creator.

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