[asa] God and Science Teaching

If God is the cause of all things in any real sense, then any description of natural processes without reference to God is incomplete, just as any account of Jesus life without reference to His divine nature is incomplete.
   
  If we in science education leave God out of the picture, does this please God, who we have acknowleged is the first cause of all things and whose glory fills the earth and is proclaimed by the heavens?
   
  Were my students created by blind chance funneled through the seive of physical laws, or were they each, individually created by God? If the answer is both, then a naturalistic description is incomplete in the most important way.
   
  Can I remedy this by telling them that I am referring to secondary causes only and not primary causes? Do they understand what that means? Will they understand how a "first cause" is a real cause? Will they understand that the naturalistic explanation is fundamentally incomplete?
   
  Why should a "first cause" even be relevant or significant to them? If the secondary causes are all we need, then a first cause is superfluous.
   
  Must I push the significance of the first cause to questions about morality and meaning? I hope not, because such a God-of-the-Gaps approach is on shaky ground in the eyes of the materialist, who has mechanistic expalnations for meaning and altruism as well as creation.
   
  "He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together, " and we, like Nebuchadnezzar leave Him out of our explanation (Daniel 4:30). "It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves (Ps. 100)."
   
  "For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen. Rom 11)."
   
   
   
   

 
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Received on Thu Jan 18 12:59:02 2007