Christianity and science are not incompatible
by Julian Mann, Christian Today:
In 23 years of ordained ministry in the Church of England, I came across many people who assumed that science has ‘disproved’ Christianity. Having a blind faith in this assumption, they seemed to have been brainwashed by the educational system and the mainstream media.
Young people I came across in parish ministry had been especially bamboozled into thinking that Christianity was not worth looking into because it had been shown to be out of touch with the modern world. My observation was that children from Christian homes seemed to be on the back foot in their school peer groups because their parents had not been equipped by their local churches to help them to stand up against modernist propaganda.
The presentation in the video below exploding the myth that science and Christianity are incompatible is probably the best treatment of the subject I have come across, even during my time at theological college. It is by Gerry Straker, the pastor of Church by the Bay in Morecambe, Lancashire.
Gerry Straker deals deftly with the ‘New Atheists’ such as Richard Dawkins, showing that Dawkins is not an objective, unbiased scientist but in reality an evangelist for his brand of atheism, which is itself based on dogma. This is exemplified by Dawkins’s assertion in his 1995 book River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life:
‘In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.’
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