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Christianity and Science?Is scientific thinking consistent with?a Bible-based Christian worldview??How should we use the two sources of?information (in the Word and the Works)that are graciously provided for us by God? Lecture at Wheaton College (March 27, 2003)by Dr. Deborah Haarsma ( with slides selected by Craig Rusbult to make??a file for the ASA Science Education Website ) Science arises naturally????from a Christian worldview???? We are studying God’s handiwork (Ps 19:1) God calls us to do science (Gen 1:28, 2:19-20) We are gifted to do science (Gen 1:27) Nature is controlled by one God in a faithful manner (Ps 119:89-90, Ps 74:16-17) We cannot know God’s mind a priori (Job 38, Ps 135:6), but we can learnhow He governs nature (Prov 25:2) Redemption history haspast, present, and future (time is linear) Christianworldview beliefs We are studyingGod’s handiwork God calls us to do science We are gifted to do science Nature is controlled byone God in a faithful manner We cannot know God’s mind a priori, but can learn howHe governs nature Redemption history haspast, present, and future Response toapparent conflicts with Scripture Maybe science and scripture are at war? No! Maybe scripture trumps science? Maybe science trumps scripture? Belgic Confession??? Article 2: The Means by Which We Know God We know him by two means: First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe, since that universe is before our eyes like a beautiful book in which all creatures, great and small, are as letters to make us ponder the invisible things of God:his eternal power and his divinity… Second, he makes himself known to us more openly by his holy and divine Word, as muchas we need in this life, for his glory and forthe salvation of his own. Two Books: Nature Scripture Two Books: Nature Scripture A tool for resolving conflictsbetween science theology Hope: Nature and Scripture are bothfrom God and must agree(all truth is God’s