A Brief Word About Science and the Word

A Christian understanding of revelation provides a basis for science and it limits science all at the same time.

Because God designed the world to reveal God, the world’s creativity and order can be studied and analyzed.  There is an objective universe which can rightly make the subject of evaluation and investigation.  There are spiritual truths for us to see in the farthest galaxies and divine disclosure in the smallest quarks.

But because of our own blindness and ignorance we should not think that science answers all our questions.  Or even the most important questions. There are some truths, including particular truths about God and salvation and spiritual realities, that require God to speak more clearly.

Science is good and necessary but it is not final or absolute.  To know God and his ways we need God to use his words. Science can leave us without excuse, but only the Word can save.