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God reveals reality, and He reveals it to scientists, non-scientists, unbelievers, and believers. In the same way, He’s been revealing reality since the day of Creation, and now He just keeps unfolding revelation as quickly as we embrace it. Consider the following quotes from “In Christ All Things Hold Together, The Intersection of Science & Christian Theology”:
“To be sure, the fact that Scripture is supreme in its authority, and the only source and norm for orthodox Christian doctrine, does not mean we are always correct in interpreting Scripture. So it can seem (and may sometimes be) reasonable to consider whether some alternative ways of reading Scripture might make it easier to accept some apparently well-confirmed claim of science. And yet there are dangers here all the same. One of these is the unstated assumption that the best science is on the same level as the Word of God. The problem is that God’s Word has an eternal and ultimate validity, while even the best scientific theories are the products of finite, fallen minds and have at most a temporal and penultimate status. A marriage between the eternal Word of God and temporal science is apt to produce a widow as the science changes.”
“It is unwise to rely on fallible conjectures that may tomorrow be consigned to the dustbin of science, in order to give the final seal of veracity on Scripture’s claims.”
“Simply joining Christianity with the latest and greatest scientific theory is a bad idea because it creates the false sense that the authority of the Word rests on that theory.”
“It is precisely because Christians have a place to stand, on Christ, who is ‘the same yesterday and today and forever’ (Heb. 13:8), that they do not have to lean on their own understanding (Prov. 3:5–6), including science, as a place for final answers. As Veith argues, this actually frees Christians to be both more skeptical and more open-minded toward the world’s ideas than the secularist.”
“The controlling idea for the New Atheist or opponents of biblical Christianity is that what we should believe about God is defined by what science has revealed . . .”
God can teach us a lesson through history. Historically, what was called “solid science” has died. If we, as Christians, become dogmatic about any scientific notion of the day, we may project that dogmatism to those around us. Since people know we’re followers of Christ, they have trouble seeing the dividing line between Christ and our dogmatic notion. When the notion is proved false, Satan uses that scientific failure to say that Christ has been proved false or that the Bible has been proved false.
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