SAMMI SHEPPARD | STAFF WRITER
The Science, Faith and Culture Lecture series continued last Wednesday, March 10 and the connection between Christianity and science was challenged by Dr. Tim Morris professor of biology at Covenant College in Georgia.
Morris explained how God’s grace can free people from certain things, as well as free people to other things this sentence does not make sense.
Most science and faith lectures typically are about science and religion or science and the Bible, but they imply that there is a contrast between the two components according to…. Morris showed that they can and are in fact meant to work together by exploring the grace of God.
“I think people have associated grace entirely with religious things and with redemption and have not usually thought about grace more widely in all human endeavors,” said Morris. “I think talking about science and grace opens up some new areas to think about God’s work and God’s favor.”
God’s grace can free people from vain attempts to establish a foundation for science within science itself according to Morris. Throughscripture, Morris concludedthat science needs to have a “Christocentric”focus—God made creation good, therefore, studying creation is good.
God’s grace also frees people from the view of science as being completely human and value-free-all of these statements need to be attributed to him or else this seems like an opinion article with him supporting her opinion Morris explained self-involvement from scientific activities is neither completely avoidable, nor is it regrettable. Human involvement will happen since science is done by humans.
“It was pretty interesting when he was talking about human involvement and how you couldn’t be able to eliminate that,” freshman biology major Marissa Ulrich said. “Typical scientists, on the other hand, think we have to remove human error and any type of biases.”
Throughout the lecture, Morris emphasized the opportunity Christians have to show God’s grace to others and bring everything people know as Christians to doing science.
“The lecture was very informative,” Ulrich said. “I thought it was really cool how Dr. Morris integrated his personal Christian ideologies onto a broad scope of sciences.”
As stewards of God’s grace and favor in science, Christians must love their enemies, find joy in the favor God shows to scientists in their work and participate in scientific culture by being a good neighbor in it. attribution God’s grace allows people to fully engage in the cultural endeavors of science, according to Morris.
“This shows people who are going into the field of science that you can hold your faith in a field that typically is portrayed as mechanical,” said Ulrich.
Morris also challenged the audience to think about knowledge. Who or what are we trying to please in out scientific knowing? Morris said our only real need is to trust God because he constructs knowledge. As Christians, scientists need to take the gift God has given them and the task they haveseriously and give it back to the one who gave them the gift. attribution.
“I liked that Dr. Morris said all things that we truly know are by revelation of God so it kind of erases that selfish nature; we really have to put that back to God,” senior cinematic arts major Natasha Koziol said. “I really liked how he said that the purpose of science and discovery is that it eventually all points to the creator.”
Morris explained that one’s calling to science is not just to find out stuff about God’s creation. By studying science, people can reveal more about God. Scientists need to be bold in creative ideas or new ways of thinking in ways that are pleasing to God. Attribution If scientists have Christ at the focus of their work, it will be pleasing to God.
Morris showed how God’s grace frees people to bear witness as redeemed human beings to God’s redeeming work in and through the science they do. God made four relationships to be in perfect order: human to God, human to self, human to others and human to creation.
“Reconciliation of relationship to God spreads throughout all our relationships and it’s a matter of scientification and the work of the Spirit,” said Morris.
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“I love science so I really think Christians should be open to science 100 percent because it’s exciting,” Koziol said. “When I was younger, I remember you didn’t really talk about science in church so I’ve really enjoyed coming to APU and having that open up and be acceptable. I think it’s opening up in the churches as well. I think the more that we look to science it just reveals more about God.”