To Face the Facts

Working in the science field, I get asked questions a lot like “Doesn’t being in science make you doubt the existence of God?” “Do you really think we need a God, when science is finding out new things everyday?” “Do you really believe in God?”

My simple answer to people that think working with science hinders my faith,

“Absolutely not, if anything it only strengthens it”.

As I learn more and more through my studies, my awe of God increases.

Studying the anatomy of each living organism, I can only stop and wonder at the vast intricacy of everything. There’s no way the details of the human body could explode from thin air.

From a bacteria cell to an animal cell. Algae to Tree. Ant to Elephant.Each thing is designed to perfection so that it can survive and thrive. Organisms adapt to their environments and pass on traits to their offspring to help them better survive. There’s no way I believe it’s by chance they know how to do that. Our genetic code is so comprehensive, and that even one small defect can cause mutations and horrendous diseases such as Tay-Sachs disease or Huntington disease.

On our Earth alone, there are so many different kinds of biomes that are unique in their vegetation and animals that populate them. Taigas, Tundras, Desserts, Tropical Rain Forests, Grasslands, and the list goes on.

Even one cell is ridiculously complex. From the steps in glycolysis, the Krebs Cycle, and the Electric Transport chain just to produce oxygen to scheduled cell death. From having a nucleus and ribosomes to having cilia and flagella to navigate.

Just the anatomy of a human heart or brain is too elaborate and sophisticated to fathom.

There is scripture consistent with biology, anthropology, hydrology, meteorology, geology, astronomy, physics, and yes maybe even paleontology.

The Bible doesn’t dispute science, it actually helps to better explain it.

Call me crazy, but I rather believe in a God who created all of this than believe an explosion or evolution created such detail and intricacy.

I want to believe in a God who cared so much for each living and non-living thing that He handcrafted everything. That he took time to create the birds, the trees, the waters, and especially the people. He painted the skies for all to see. He brought forth mother nature for us to behold. He created man so that we could learn to love as He first loved us. The beauty around us came from somewhere. It didn’t come from nowhere. And I refuse to believe otherwise.

Psalm 14:1 ~ Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”