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1 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Dr. Neil Shenvi Sam James Institute April 20, 2015
2 Biography
3 Tough Questions: science and religion
4 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Only nature exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
5 Science and the Christian worldview 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. 3 They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. 4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. 5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. 6 It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth. 7 The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple. 8 The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the LORD are firm, and all of them are righteous. 10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb. 11 By them your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward. Psalm 19:1-11
6 Science and the Christian worldview God desires to make himself known to humanity (Psalm 19:1-2) God reveals himself through general revelation, his works in Nature (Psalm 19:1-6) God reveals himself through special revelation, his words in Scripture (Psalm 19:7-11)
7 Science and the Christian worldview We study God s revelation through hermeneutics and science Study of nature and Scripture should always lead us to worship Content Medium Method General revelation Special revelation God s works God s words Nature Scripture Science Hermeneutics Worship
8 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Only nature exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
9 Tough Questions: science and religion
10 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Nature is all that exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
11 evidence not faith Another meme of the religious meme complex is called faith. It means blind trust in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence. Richard Dawkins, The Selflish Gene every religion preaches the truth of propositions for which it has no evidence. In fact, every religion preaches the truth of propositions for which no evidence is even conceivable. Sam Harris, The End of Faith "Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith." - Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great Faith = belief without evidence
12 evidence not faith
13 evidence not faith The Greek pistis (= faith) means more than mere intellectual assent (see James 2:19) Biblical faith is personal trust in God In any personal relationship, my faith can be based on evidence that the other person is good and trustworthy In the same way, faith in God can be based on evidence that He exists and that He is trustworthy
14 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Nature is all that exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
15 Only nature exists Any account of nature should pass the tests of scientific evidence Nature may indeed be broader and deeper than we now know; any new discoveries, however, will but enlarge our knowledge of the natural." Humanist Manifesto II One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural. - James Watson, Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. - Matthew Arnold, 19 th century poet
16 only nature exists I don t understand why you always have to be judging me because I only believe in science
17 Only nature exists The position that Nature is all that exists is known as naturalism Naturalism is a metaphyiscal proposition, not a physical proposition What experiment can I perform to demonstrate that there are no non-natural entities?
18 Only nature exists + Things that exist: Rocks Planets Stars Pizza Books Electrons Neutrons Birds Cement Mixers Trees Tables Chairs God Angels Demons Unicorns
19 Only nature exists Methodological naturalism is the assumption that non-natural entities will not regularly interfere with experiments Metaphysical naturalism is the denial that nonnatural entities exist Methodological naturalism does not imply metaphysical naturalism
20 Only nature exists I feel sick I ve run every test available. Your symptoms must be caused by some unknown poison Or maybe I have a cold I m a toxicologist!!! I don t believe in colds!!!
21 Only nature exists
22 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Nature is all that exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
23 only science leads to truth There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. Stephen Hawking The great conflict of the 21st century will be between modern civilization and anti-modernists; between those who believe in science, reason, and logic and those who believe that truth is revealed through Scripture and religious dogma. Robert Reich Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning. Jerry Coyne
24 only science leads to truth Epistemology is the study of how we know truth Scientism is the position that science is the only way to know truth Scientism is self-refuting and therefore false
25 only science leads to truth Science is the only way to know truth Do you know that truth through science?
26 only science leads to truth Science is the only reliable way to know truth Do you know that truth reliably?
27 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Nature is all that exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
28 we can t believe in miracles "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle...is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined" - David Hume "It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries, and at the same time to believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles." - Rudolf Bultmann "The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity." - John Shelby Spong
29 we can t believe in miracles It is problematic to assert that it is impossible for God to intervene in nature Some personal experience contradicts Hume s assertion Quantum mechanics provides a mechanism for God to intervene in nature without violating natural laws God is not subject to the laws of nature any more than a novelist is subject to the laws of his novel If God transcends nature then he can intervene in nature as a causal agent without violating natural laws
30 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Nature is all that exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
31 god-of-the-gaps "The concept of God as a supernatural personal being is only a stop-gap explanation, advanced to stop the gaps in prescientific thought." - Julian Huxley "God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore." - Richard Feynman Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. Richard Dawkins
32 god-of-the-gaps
33 god-of-the-gaps Natural explanation No known natural explanation Modern science Naturalism Deism God God-ofthe-gaps God God God Christianity God
34 god-of-the-gaps A God-of-the-gaps is not the biblical God Naturalism-of-the-gaps is just as problematic Science closes some gaps and opens others
35 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Nature is all that exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
36 scientists are atheists
37 scientists are atheists Majority belief doesn t determine truth Expertise in science does not entail expertise about God Most scientists are not atheists Pew research center, 2009
38 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Nature is all that exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
39 Evolution disproves God
40 Evolution disproves God Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker The more you understand the significance of evolution, the more you are pushed away from the agnostic position and towards atheism. Richard Dawkins, The New Humanist, 107(2) Charles Darwin was born in 1809, on the very same day as Abraham Lincoln, and there is no doubt as to which of them has proved to be the greater `emancipator. Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
41 Evolution disproves God To assess the argument science shows that evolution produced life; therefore God did not create life, we need to carefully define evolution
42 Evolution disproves God Modern evolutionary theory is based on three pillars: 1) change in species over Earth s history, 2) universal common descent, and 3) biodiversity through random mutation and natural selection The idea that the species have changed over Earth s history is widely accepted Limited common descent is widely accepted The major area of disagreement is whether the mechanism of random mutation and natural selection can account for all present biodiversity
43 Evolution disproves God Random mutation in evolution refers specifically to a lack of dependence on the environment Random mutation should not be construed as a statement about the absence of any causation or guidance There is nothing intrinsically incompatible between random mutations and God s guidance
44 Evolution disproves God Large-scale evolution is hypothesized to takes place over long timescales and in sudden, localized saltation events Experimental evidence for these large-scale changes is either extremely sparse or non-existent Therefore, arguments about the mechanism of macroevolution must extrapolate well beyond what is currently observable Therefore, it is not true that science proves that macroevolution is driven by random mutation and natural selection
45 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions We should only believe things based on evidence, not faith. Nature is all that exists. Science is the only way to know truth. We can't believe in miracles. Christianity is based on a God-of-the-gaps. Scientists don't believe in God. Evolution disproves God. Is there any scientific evidence for God? Why isn t there more evidence for God? Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
46 Break TEN MINUTE BREAK TAKES NINE-AND-A-HALF MINUTES OF QUESTIONS
47 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions Evidence for God from science The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics The beginning of the universe The fine-tuning of the universe The surprising implications of quantum mechanics The intrinsic goodness of truth The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
48 Evidence for God from science Science rarely produces absolute proof, which is normally reserved for mathematics Science provides evidence which supports one conclusion over another The question to ask is not does this evidence prove that God exists? but which worldview is more consistent with and better explains the evidence: theism or naturalism?
49 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions Evidence for God from science The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics The beginning of the universe The fine-tuning of the universe The surprising implications of quantum mechanics The intrinsic goodness of truth The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
50 The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
51 The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics From Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner s article The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 13, No. I (1960): the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and that there is no rational explanation for it. That [the mathematician's] recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess. "It is difficult to avoid the impression that a miracle confronts us [in the beauty of physical laws], quite comparable in its striking nature to the miracle that the human mind can string a thousand arguments together without getting itself into contradictions, or to the two miracles of the existence of laws of nature and of the human mind's capacity to divine them
52 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions Evidence for God from science The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics The beginning of the universe The fine-tuning of the universe The surprising implications of quantum mechanics The intrinsic goodness of truth The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
53 The beginning of the universe
54 The beginning of the universe Prior to the discovery of the Big Bang, most scientists believed the universe was eternal Creationists and those of similar persuasions seeking support for their opinions have ample justification in the doctrine of the Big Bang. - John Maddox, Nature, 340, 1989, p 425 If all of nature began to exist, what extra-natural cause brought it into being?
55 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions Evidence for God from science The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics The beginning of the universe The fine-tuning of the universe The surprising implications of quantum mechanics The intrinsic goodness of truth The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
56 The fine-tuning of the universe
57 The fine-tuning of the universe The Standard Model of physics includes numerous constants and parameters which are not specified by any known theory Many of these constants are fine-tuned to a remarkable degree to enable the existence of life in the universe For instance, the cosmological constant is tuned to approximately one part in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion (1: ) A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question. astrophysicist Fred Hoyle
58 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions Evidence for God from science The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics The beginning of the universe The fine-tuning of the universe The surprising implications of quantum mechanics The intrinsic goodness of truth The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
59 The surprising implications of quantum mechanics
60 The surprising implications of quantum mechanics Very few events are strictly impossible. the random nature of quantum physics means that there is always a minuscule, but nonzero, chance of anything occurring the new collider could spit out man-eating dragons. (Dennis Overbye, "Gauging a Collider's Odds of Creating a Black Hole", NYTimes, 4/15/08) God could intervene miraculously in the universe without violating laws of nature Some entities are completely inaccessible to measurement or observation, even in principle Some early quantum physicists like Wigner and von Neumann believed that QM demonstrated that mind or consciousness is distinct from matter
61 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions Evidence for God from science The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics The beginning of the universe The fine-tuning of the universe The surprising implications of quantum mechanics The intrinsic goodness of truth The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
62 The intrinsic goodness of truth
63 The intrinsic goodness of truth The scientific enterprise is founded on the belief that truth is intrinsically good and ought to be pursued Naturalistic theories of morality tend to equate goodness and value with human flourishing A naturalist could argue that truth is good because it promotes human flourishing But, in this case, truth is an instrumental good not an intrinsic good
64 The intrinsic goodness of truth An intrinsic good is something that is good in and of itself An instrumental good is something that is a means to an end; it is good only insofar as it achieves some other ultimate good If naturalism is true, truth is often in deep conflict with human flourishing Therefore, if naturalism is true, it tends to undercut the foundation of the scientific enterprise
65 The intrinsic goodness of truth If Christianity is true, then God values truth (see John 8:32, 14:16) If Christianity is true, then God commands us to seek the truth (see Prov. 8) So if Christianity is true, then truth is intrinsically good and truth-seeking is morally obligatory
66 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions Evidence for God from science The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics The beginning of the universe The fine-tuning of the universe The surprising implications of quantum mechanics The intrinsic goodness of truth The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions
67 Why isn t the scientific evidence clearer? Science is not the only means to truth Science is not the best way to reach all people Modern science did not exist for millennia Science is not the best way to reach people who are not good at science Science is not the best way to reach cultures that do not esteem science
68 Why isn t all of the evidence clearer than it is? Evidence is not the ultimate issue God s comprehensive claim on our lives makes us uncomfortable If no amount of evidence will remove the fundamental obstacle between us and God, why blame God for a lack of evidence?
69 Tough Questions: Science and Religion Science and the Christian worldview Answering tough questions Evidence for God from science The hiddenness of God Approaching tough questions Humility Credibility Gospel-centeredness
70 Humility
71 Humility Admit your ignorance Expect to learn Don t be afraid to say I don t know
72 Credibility
73 Credibility Never use arguments you know are false Never bluff Don t bring a knife to a gun fight
74 Gospel-centeredness
75 Gospel-centeredness Point all discussions towards Jesus God is known through revelation, not education The Holy Spirit, not a good argument, changes hearts
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