All truth is God’s truth, whether we discover it in revelation (in the Bible or what God’s spirit reveals to people/the church) or through scientific investigation. The tools of science and the tools of spiritual wisdom-seeking belong to different tool sets and are equipped to handle different kinds of knowledge. That’s fine. We should use all the ways of acquiring knowledge of truth and pursue all the different kinds of knowledge of truth that we can. If a definitive and trustworthy discovery from science calls into question something that I thought I knew was true from God’s revelation, I don’t assume that “truth” is being called into question, just my understanding of it. There is always room to realize we may have understood inadequately or wrongly something we thought the Bible taught or God revealed, and we now have the opportunity to understand better. There isn’t anything science can reveal that challenges what is true, just what we believed was true. I am more afraid of the consequences of believing untrue things than I am of learning I was wrong and changing my mind, so I welcome the opportunity to align my beliefs with truth, no matter what domain that truth comes from or what tool kit we used to get at it.
I keep mentioning “Ironic Design Theory” but the Discovery Institute still doesn’t call. ![]()
I kinda have another question that comes up a lot: where does God come from? I know it’s weird to try and cover these questions (especially when we consider whether the Universe is eternal and other stuff that shouldn’t be around forever) but I was wondering if there was any advanced insight available into this question.
This presumes God is subject to some external space-time framework, which is emphatically rejected. The only when or where are created by God. Furthermore God is described as uncaused and an a necessary existent. As a result, questions like this are rendered meaningless.
Some try to concoct a proof of God’s existence from this. But I do not think this is valid. It is circular. Just because you come up with a definition of something doesn’t mean there is anything to which the definition applies.