Science

If you are around me enough you will probably hear the mostly startling statement of "I don't believe in science." This IS NOT insinuative of any sort of grudge against the class in school for all it's strain as most suggest. My dissensions are rarely so unfounded. The class did put me to thinking on the subject again, however, and as usual in a critical way. The definition has evolved into a much more realistically enstranged topic, antagonizing its initial purpose of moving closer to the truth. There are three main definitions, please read them carefully because there is something I want you to see:

1 : the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding
2 a : a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study b : something (as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge
3 a : knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method b : such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena : natural science

I will now call to attention the method in ordering these alternative definitions. Almost always either the original or generalist definition of the term get the first slot and they continue in descending order. You will also notice that in these definitions they come to have a more material preoccupation as they go, and stray away from the traditional knowledge-thirsty intent.
The biggest problem with science is its disregard for the supernatural. You cannot begin to non-fictionally discover the earth's phenomena with but exclusive research of natural explanations. Nothing is natural. I would wonder as to how one could be so arrogant that they believe they could have a knowledge of every miracle and completely trash all divine control.

Now I know you are all reading and waiting for my comments and disdain for popularly hailed and shunned, evolution. Well put it out of your head, because I will not specifically criticize it. No, I believe I'll stick to science in general. However, I will provide some thought on Mr. Charles Darwin, advocate and more or less founder of the "Evolution Revolution."

Briefly: Grew up in a Unitarian church with his 5 brothers and sisters. After his mother died he attended a boarding school and soon began to apprentice as a doctor with his father. He found these practices not only dull, but distressing and began to slack in this line of work. He learned and excelled in taxidermy, classification of plants, and natural history while in school, but his father soon sent him away to Christ's College, Cambridge due to his negligence in his medical studies. The reason? A bachelor arts degree and the first step in the path to becoming a parson. Yes that's right, our evolution man, hideously disparaged by almost every preacher a gospel man himself. While he was there he was strayed away from his studies by newly discovered hobby of beetle collecting and other sport such as riding and shooting. As finals moved closer however he buckled down to his work. He was intrigued and infatuated by some literature by William Paley, a vigorous advocate and theologian that mainly subjected the existence of God. He did exceptionally well on his exam and continued to study Paley's work embodying many such subjects as divine design in nature. His interest in natural history however led him to abandon his schooling for that famous voyage on the HMS Beagle. While on his voyage he began to theorize about the adaptations and evolvement of species. As he begin to delve more and more into thoughts on involvement, his distinction between human and animal began to slowly become thinner. Besides overwork in his obsessive interests he also began to experience health problems, including stomach pains, vomiting, severe boils, palpitations, trembling and other symptoms none of which the origin was ever discovered, he suffered from these symptoms for the rest of his life. His interests began to rest heavily in the origin of things. When he finally published his work on natural selections controversy and interest exploded. While Darwin mostly sat back and watched his subtle theory explode into hundreds of assumptions and adoptions, his inner circle of friends (Gray, Hooker, Huxley and Lyell) were really the ones to take it in all different directions. Gray and Lyell were for a more faith based portrayal of the theory while Huxley began to "elaborate" in favor of the prescence of the "men from apes" theory in the book (which was not at all in the book) and begin a fierce campaign for science's trump over religion. The whole experience from the time Darwin had returned from his Beagle voyage had left him questioning the Bible as literal truth. He would often quote the Bible on the voyage and sought to tie in the adaptations of species from a pro-creation standpoint. His studies left him doubting. His blossoming thoughts on natural selection began to make divine design seem silly and pointless. To add to his questioning he begin to take notice of all the pain and strife demonstrated in the world's everyday life and thought that someone as good as the Creator he knew would not cause such, and with the death of his daughter Annie his Christian faith began to dwindle. While he never denied the existence of God and clung tightly to the bible as a source of moral law, his strong Christian lifestyle had been crushed by the search for reason. His lust for learning in regard to the natural, and his quest for explanations within human reason brought him further from the truth. His inner war between Christianity and Science gave him (and his wife) severe bouts with depression. In learning more and more about the world his faith was shaken. Our boy Darwin was growing up and leaving his child-like faith behind and with it the eternal truth that he would never get a grasp on again.

I speak to my brothers and sisters in Christ now. What can we hope to gain in pursuing science? Wisdom and true knowledge don't come from this earth or from natural things, but from above. I would venture to say another startling statement. I don't believe a Christian should avidly study science unless they are exceptionally and unshakeably firm in their faith. No if science is taken for what it was meant to be it isn't a bad thing. Not at all and it may be worth your time depending on its source. Why, though, would you intentionally delve so incureably deep into to a realm that will only fill your mind with doubts and harden your heart to the miraculous way of our Lord. Science should be more of a companion to Christianity with no difference in the Word and discovery. The only way you can uncover the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is in checking your hypotheses based on what God's word says. This contemporary science has become a heretical religion instead of a quest for intellectuals. A haven for atheists and the secularly inclined. It breaks my heart to see yet another Enemy infested perversion. Science is like all good things, not wrong unless corrupted.

Also I must point out that as much as science begs to shut down the supernatural as truth, in it's explanations it is ignorant as to just how much it's supporting it. The more statistics and complexities it begins to explain the more it's realized just how impossible it is to be without divine intervention. It hails God's hand, unfortunately with names like "spontaneous," and "chance." It tries to name our physical makeup while it just can't comprehend how astoundingly intricate we our. It blames chemicals and such for our thoughts and perfect revolution and location for the existence of life on earth. Then, I wonder, whom or what does it blame for the chemicals or such a precise location. They can never ever trace it all back to the beginning, because to do that it would have to admit that a never-ending chain of theories strung together loosely with spontaneous happenings would leave them with no end, because the end, people, is God and God defies their creed.

All this said I'm not on the whole against science. Just look once more at the first enumerated definition above, there's as far as it goes for me, and even that has it's limitations. Just look where a "state of knowing" has gotten human beings since that fateful fruit infringement in the garden of Eden. But as for the present day and age, ignorance is not the place to be in order to make a difference and wisdom is God's wish for us. Let's just seek it out in eternal places. Among the everyday miracles of God's creation. In the mysteries of Love that have been put in place everywhere we go waiting to be discovered. In the thrill of the Lord's promise and all the knowledge He would love to give to us. Nothing in this earth can compare to Christ's Love. Now there's something all your theorizing, hypothesizing, and explaining can't get a hold of. How much your Savior loves you. Science will never be supreme, no matter how foolish it attempts to make Christianity look. Our faith and our belief will not waver.