A Concept of Duality
The last few months, I’ve been debating a few different scientific and religious concepts that have somewhat challenged my faith, but in the end, turned out to strengthen it. Two sides of one topic have been Creation and Evolution. I am a Christian, and believe in Creation, as told from the bible, but when people hear that, and ask “how can you not believe in evolution because of the undisputable evidence?” While the amount of evidence is debatable, it is immaterial for me.
When I see evolution, the big bang, the human race coming from primates, I see only one thing, and that is God’s work. Ever piece of information that supports evolution, I see it supporting Creation. It doesn’t matter how it came to be, how things evolved, God still created it, and in doing so he intended it to evolve.
The miracles experience in our biblical history have been doubted by those who say, “Well, it’s only a simple chemical reaction…” (in the example of turning water into wine, perhaps one that is currently unknown). My reaction is, “Yes! But it is by God’s laws that it happens! He created them in order to perform it!” Chemistry in itself is a miracle. Who else but the Almighty could have the power to take molecules that one cannot even imagine and turn them into something else?
Humanity has always had it problems and conflicts in dealing with the church and science. I can not understand them any other way other than always aiding and supporting each other. Science exists to explain events that happen in the natural word, and religion exists to explain how the science can exist. While both can be independent, science without religion, and religion without science, I believe it is best to combine them, faith with evidence, evidence with faith.