God and Science

I am many things: A mother, a girlfriend, a daughter, sister, and niece.  I am kind, compassionate, and more forgiving than I probably should be.  I am smart, creative, spiritual, and scientific.

But how do those last two things actually coincide?  How can someone believe in God, even while believing that birds evolved from dinosaurs?  How can I believe in the possibility of multiple universes, and also in heaven?

I have gotten responses from both atheists and Christians (though mostly Christians, I’ll admit) about how my beliefs are wrong.  How either one is true or the other is, never both, etc etc. 

I disagree.

The way I see it, God is the Ultimate scientist.  He has everything right, even if we don’t yet have the science to prove it.  On the other hand, although many Christian teachings may have the order right, there have been many times when they haven’t had the science to understand certain things (example: when even the idea that the earth revolved around the sun was considered blasphemy). 

As far as the creation of the world, I believe that God created it… likely through evolution.  I believe that God touches us every day, in a multitude of ways.  I believe He has known eternally exactly what needed to be done – and when – to have our planet be exactly how it is today, and to touch our lives in exactly the ways they need to be. 

I believe in free will, that we can each make our own decisions and will have to face our own consequences, but I believe that God knew exactly what would happen and how that would turn out from before the beginning (insert possibility of multiple/parallel Universes, all governed by God, here). 

(There are plenty of other matters of faith that I see differently in the light of science and modern knowledge, but I’ll keep those to myself for now.)

Being scientific and questioning in nature, I have been asked how I can believe in God even though He can’t be proven or measured.

Well, for one, he can’t be disproven.

For another, there are plenty of things that can’t be measured.  We have no way of scientifically measuring pain, but we know that some things hurt worse than others (a paper cut is nothing compared to getting your finger slammed in the door).

We can’t truly measure emotion, but we know we feel it, and what different emotions mean to us.

There are sounds that we have no idea the cause of, yet we know they’re real.

Scientific anomalies happen all the time, but more and more we realize that some of these “anomalies” are more “rule” than “coincidence.”

I think God is the same way. 

I know He’s there.  I’ve felt him.  I’ve experienced His love in a way that can’t be measured by science or modern technology.  But just because I don’t have the science to prove Him, doesn’t mean He’s any less real.

My God loves me, He loves all of us, and I am grateful for that every day.  I may fall short of perfection by a lot, but He loves me.  I believe that just as strongly – in a way, more so – as I do any proven science.