- Dear friends:
- In our plural modern society, it seems very hard to believe there is only one Creator God. However, what Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize winner in biochemistry, said below makes a lot of sense to me. because if there were many gods,then there were many laws in their particular territories. Our universe would be a chaotic and divided world among these gods because they would be fighting against one another's laws ceaselessly. (Just think about Greek gods and goddesses on Mt. Olympia. These gods are men made, therefore they are just reflect human psychology, so they behave exactly like human beings, jealous, power-thirsty and women chasing...etc.)How can scientists do their science then? Or should scientists get different passports into different gods' territories to do their particular subjects of science??
- Well, I guess you may doubt there were no God, but to assume there are many gods and every religions work don't make sense at all.( You won't be able to do your science or to pursue your subject matter for research works.) Agree? Of course, if there is God, you may wonder why He doesn't show Himself to you. However, God does send us unspoken messages through the sky,Sun,moon and stars, through all His creations and through His Word--Bible.
- Below is a link to a good article to share with you.
Belief in God is the motor that drove science
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...Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize-winner in biochemistry, finds the origin of the conviction, basic to science, that nature is ordered in the basic notion: "that the universe is governed by a single God, and is not the product of the whims of many gods, each governing his own province according to his own laws. This monotheistic view seems to be the historical foundation for modern science."
Far from belief in God hindering science, it was the motor that drove it. Isaac Newton, when he discovered the law of gravitation, did not make the common mistake of saying: "now I have a law of gravity, I don't need God." Instead, he wrote Principia Mathematica, the most famous book in the history of science, expressing the hope that it would persuade the thinking man to believe in a Creator.
Newton could see, what sadly many people nowadays seem unable to see, that God and science are not alternative explanations. God is the agent who designed and upholds the universe; science tells us about how the universe works and about the laws that govern its behavior. God no more conflicts with science as an explanation for the universe than Sir Frank Whittle conflicts with the laws and mechanisms of jet propulsion as an explanation for the jet engine. The existence of mechanisms and laws is not an argument for the absence of an agent who set those laws and mechanisms in place. On the contrary, their very sophistication, down to the fine-tuning of the universe, is evidence for the Creator's genius. For Kepler: "The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics." ...
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