Well, did we? Is the current status, that of barely disguised contempt and cold animosity between Christianity and science our fault? Surely it is time to be brutally honest, and look in the mirror before setting off on another round of finger-pointing and blowing raspberries at secular scientism. There is no doubt that there is a huge chasm between especially academic scientists, and evangelical Christianity. How on earth did that happen, when 100 years ago most scientists were Christians, and their work was seen as exploring and getting know know more about creation, while also in the process extracting some benefits for mankind. Following the enlightenment, in the face of modernism and post-modernism, some scientists did come to see science as having invalidated religious beliefs, and as a validation for a materialist worldview. Explicit Christian beliefs were and are not welcome in the halls of science.
But….contemporary science is often just as unwelcome in the modern church. Science is viewed with a range of responses, mainly suspicion, but often also outright combativeness. There are many conversations among Christians about whether to use secular scientific texts or use those explicitly written for Christians, always wary that secular texts may contain something dangerous to our faith. Christians seem to have this vague feeling that science must be complementary to Christianity, but that it is not living up to it’s end of...
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