EITHER OR

“Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.”

-Psalm 119:105

An unfortunate divorce has taken place in the minds of a lot of people in recent years – the divorce of science and the Bible. Some, put their faith in science and fail to discover the God of the Bible. On the other hand, some hold to the teachings of the Bible and denounce science as perverting the truth.

If there is one God – then the God of the Bible must be the same God that the scientist encounters in his laboratory. God reveals His works in science and in His Word, the Bible. If you have made this business of science and the Bible a matter of ‘either/or,’ you have missed the entire point of each.

Is it possible that science has plumbed the depths of knowledge? Albert Einstein said that existent knowledge is like a grain of sand on the seashore, while the vast ocean of knowledge yet remains unexplored. If you could look out through the world’s most powerful telescope, could you explore all there is of space? You could fathom how many galaxies there are – but could God exist further, beyond your sight? If you admit that theoretically, God could exist beyond the most powerful telescope, you might be willing to accept the theoretical existence of God.

Then ask yourself, what governs the galaxies away out there? Who puts those laws into operation? Perhaps, you might like to look down the barrel of the most powerful microscope, then ask yourself, “Have I seen everything that exists?” When you realize you have not, then ask, “Could God exist in substance that my microscope will not magnify? Maybe you have been looking for God like a thief looks for a policeman. You have been hoping that there is none.