The Bible does not treat natural explanation and divine intervention as mutually exclusive. Rather, it often blends these two kinds of explanations, portraying God as sovereign over nature and free to use His laws to accomplish His purposes.
This short article provides an outline for a small group discussion on faith and science, with the goal of fostering love and worship of the invisible God as well as admiration and study of the visible things He made.
https://adventistreview.org/commentary/the-science-in-faith-and-the-faith-in-science/
Do science and theology undermine each other or support each other?
One often hears of conflict between religion and science or that creationists are anti-science. This article rejects such mindsets and presents another perspective about looking for the good even in people we may disagree with.
Historic moments in the conversation about beginnings
Adventists and creation go together like jam and bread, but things were not always this way.
We need both to believe
Rigorous, collaborative science is needed, while acknowledging human interpretive limits and accepting paradoxes. Faith in Christ, not just evidence, drives belief, and respectful engagement aims to win hearts, blending science and faith to reflect God’s creation.
Nature and history acquire a grander perspective from the vantage point of the Bible, and Scripture becomes more colorful and alive with the help of natural revelation. Published on volume 26/2 of the Perspective Digest.
God created everything “very good,” but sin brought pain and death. In His grace, He enabled humans to develop medical tools like dialysis, which sustains life in kidney failure though at limited efficiency compared to natural kidneys. While transplants offer better outcomes, challenges remain. For patients, dialysis reflects both God’s foresight and His sustaining grace in suffering, pointing to ultimate restoration through Christ.
How do we deal with persons who don’t believe that Genesis is right about creation and the flood?
An understanding of both the strengths and the limits of science can enable us to relate to it more realistically. Published on Volume 26/1 of the Perspective Digest
This article critically examines the purported biblical evidence brought forward to support the belief that the earth is flat. Originally published in the October 2019 issue of Reflections, newsletter of the Biblical Research Institute.
Does the Big Bang Theory integrate directly with the biblical cosmogony? Should individual Christians feel intellectually obligated to adopt and defend the Big Bang Theory? Article published on Perspective Digest, v.24/4.
The denial of miracles is a recent phenomenon based on how modernity has chosen to understand the workings of nature and what is possible in it. Belief in a personal God (theism), however, argues that through God’s actions, an event that is naturally impossible can be transformed into a real historical event. This article was originally published in Perspective Digest, v. 24/2.
Why are we trying to find extraterrestrial intelligence, using our intelligence, while at the same time precluding the possibility that an intelligence was involved in the origin of our world?
A living being is more than the collection of the multitude of organic components of which it is made.
Only if Christians can be trusted in areas scientists know, will they be trusted in areas scientists don’t know.
A Christian scientist, while accepting the testimony of Scripture about God’s past intervention in Earth’s history, can still keep an open mind toward aspects of the geologic record that are unusual and different.
Can we learn more about the qualities of the Creator through the study of geology?
