200 words on… the missing link?

The way that people can enquire and discover things about our world is incredible. But I was reminded this week about the danger of placing too much faith in science.

 

I’m not a scientist, but I do believe that God gives us knowledge in many ways and science is one of them. But it only works because God made an ordered world. So science as a discipline can test and investigate theories.

 

The problem comes when science places itself above God and claims to have all the answers. They have found the skeleton of what some believe to be the missing link between apes and humans. There’s a lot of hype about it – even Google joined the party. David Attenborough thinks that this is it – we’ve proved man’s link to apes.

 

But Science tests theories. Throughout history we see that some of these theories – while commonly accepted at the time – turn out to be false. So all science can do is hypothesize about how God’s world works.

 

We need to remind our world that science only works because the world is ordered by God.  For me, the vast amount that science cannot explain, as well as the vast amount that it can, reminds me of how beautiful, creative and mighty our God is.