Where Did Science Come From?

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. Jeremiah 10:12

If you study the history of the scientific disciplines, you’ll eventually find a “father of” that particular field. And it’s likely that founder was a creationist!

Most of the pioneers of the various sciences were not just Christians, they were explicitly motivated by their faith to investigate the world they believed God created. Their beliefs about God led them to believe that God created an orderly universe that we can study. Many scientists wanted to bring God glory through studying the world.

Science also doesn’t make sense from an evolutionary view. If our brains evolved solely to help us have a maximum chance of survival and that consciousness is just a weird by-product of chemical reactions in our brains, that doesn’t necessarily equate to accurate perception of the world or the ability to think about things scientifically.

However, if God created us to have a relationship with him and to exercise dominion as stewards over his creation as Genesis teaches, it would make sense that he would create us with the mental capacity needed for that function.

However, today, many people believe that science disproves the Bible. But when you dig down into specific claims, you will find that it is actually a materialistic interpretation of a piece of evidence that people use to attack God’s Word. For instance, some people might take a dinosaur fossil and claim that it is 100 million years old, thus disproving the Bible’s history of 6,000 years. However, a creationist could look at the same fossil and claim that the dinosaur was buried quickly to be preserved so well, and those conditions would have been present at Noah’s flood. We might further crack it open and find soft tissue still preserved inside bearing witness to the fact that it couldn’t possibly be millions of years old!

Christians founded branches of science out of a desire to glorify God by unlocking the secrets of his creation. Today, we need to take back science for God’s glory!
Adapted from the Answers with Ken Ham radio program.

I've never claimed to be a scientist which is why I post a lot of these articles on here. God ordained science to benefit mankind, this I believe to be the Truth. God forgive me if I'm wrong.

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BlueSkyKing · M

Science at its core is methodology. The bible is fiction.

OriginalDumbMan · 36-40

@BlueSkyKing science can’t explain origin. It is observable and measurable in controlled environment

GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M

@BlueSkyKing

Science at its core is methodology. The bible is fiction.

You still have to prove what you say is true, BlueSkyKing.

DocSavage · M

@GodSpeed63

You still have to prove what you say is true,

The beauty of science is that it does just that. You can’t have it both ways.
If the science reveals the wonder of god’s creation, who are you to deny it ?
And if the science is wrong, then only god could be responsible for the misinformation, why would he deliberately deceive his children ?
Ham’s interpretation is a contradiction to his own interpretation of god’s nature.

GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M

@DocSavage

The beauty of science is that it does just that. You can’t have it both ways.

Neiter can you.

If the science reveals the wonder of God’s creation, who are you to deny it ?

Take a look at your own post and see who is really denying the fact that science point to God.

And if the science is wrong,

Science is never wrong, only the interpretation of it from secular scientists is wrong.

Ham’s interpretation is a contradiction to his own interpretation of God’s nature.

You're believing in God now? That's good.

OriginalDumbMan · 36-40

@DocSavage science never existed before creation.

ElRengo · 70-79, M

@OriginalDumbMan
Science never existed (exception made of some isolated precedents) till about 400 years ago.

ElRengo · 70-79, M

@GodSpeed63
"Science is never wrong, only the interpretation of it from secular scientists is wrong."
Science IS secular. IS what scientists make it be.
Please take in account that there is no need to equate secular with atheism.
But the very concept of Science is certainly NOT what outsiders (religious or not, that haves no relevance for Sciece) say it is.

GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M

@ElRengo

Science never existed (exception made of some isolated precedents) till about 400 years ago.

Science has always existed, it's about that time that man discovered it. Call it what you will but science is a study of God's creation and how He's made it all work.

ElRengo · 70-79, M

@GodSpeed63
True that humans had curiosity on the way the Universe is with also the need to predict some critical phenomena and develope also critical practical know how on them.
The 2nd can be called the best technology they could, though only a pragmatic one.
The 1st, a collection of philosophical questions with a lot of speculative philosophical answers, mostly wrong ones at the light of what we now know better.

Was it Science? Not really.
Not because I say so.

But about four centuries ago there was a bold shift on the assumptions on the scope of research.
And a documented break with the previous worldviiew AND the authoities that held it.
As result of it, it began a new "something" that the scientific community and others call Science.
With never previously seen results.

What we know as Science and along time had other names.
Second Philosophy as not the same of what was called Firts Philosophy, mostly theology.
Natural Philosophy and also Natural History with Natural meaning what was not supernatural.

What scientist do is what was developed from those more recent views and practices.
And, besides their the personal faiths they may or not have, their scientific activity is not subordinated to the previous traditions. And shouldn´t.

By the way and I think you already know it, I share with you some believes.
So in a personal stand, I wouldn't debate your "...science is a study of God's creation and how He's made it all work"

That´s precisely why I agree with those "secular" scientists in researching it as materialy is and not as at best poeticaly is said it is.

And as facts show, scientists of various faiths or none reach convergent sucesively better explanations with no need to invoque said faiths.

While this, critics of Science, mostly outsiders and with a less than solid familiarity with scientific concepts and practice, insist in redefine it to obtain from that the validation of the word Science to what is not Science.

BlueSkyKing · M

@ElRengo Science is about methodology and it’s completely neutral.

An example of everyday methodology is cake baking. Measure all the ingredients and bake at the indicated time and temperature, the results will be consistent. Deviate from the recipe and the cake is ruined. Any man or woman, any ethnicity, any age, will get the same results.

Religion is about belief without evidence.