Science is a Christian pursuit. That is the truth of it, and the whole truth
of it. There is no other world view that
would allow for it to exist. The earliest
scientists were Christians. The most
influential scientists up to the 20th century were Christians. And even now Christians desire to be
scientists, and reject the secularist idea of science being anti-theistic.
But Christians now must fight against Science, and here is
the dilemma, must do so while upholding the validity of science. We must because when science is seen in the
right light, it gives us as much truth as humanity can gain (not very much by
the way), and it is a great tool that we Christians can use.
Thus we are hamstrung in ways that our opponents aren’t. They have no use for Christianity, and to
them, it is a lie that no one should even consider. And so they get to pull out all the
stops. There is no argument off limits
be they logical, philosophical or personal.
They get to use them against us and open up with both barrels.
This is the reason that in almost all arguments, Christians
seem over matched. We need to affirm
what is true about what our opponents believe and then try to attack it at the
same time. This leads to our usually
timidity in the arguments. And it leads
to the dilemma that we always meet in these fights, and our wishy-washy-ness. “It is true, but not true enough!”, we
protest, making us sound weak.
So I propose we start looking at things from a holistic
stance. Here it is: If we argue against
the irrational, we attack their irrationality as fiercely as they attack the
Rational God. If they are rationalists,
we attack them as fiercely as they attack the incomprehensibility of God. If they are Scientists we attack science, and
we attack it like it isn’t true, like they attack our intangible God. If they are spiritualist, we attack their disembodied
Gnosticism the same way they attack the Physical Jesus.
We do this because what they believe isn’t true, that is the
trick. Science is only true when it is
brought into the right relationship with the Bible. When it is outside that right relationship,
it is a lie and smells of fire and brimstone.
So solve the dilemma, by denying that they have anything of worth to
say. Because they don’t.
