by Jeffrey Skarski

Created on: July 23, 2008

It has come to my attention (several times) that I am not what many people are used to in a Christian. I've even been accused of not being one at all! I've been called everything from "brilliant," "compassionate" and "insightful" to "siding with sin" and "hateful." Sometimes by the same people.

So what, exactly, are my views? Well, for starters, I believe that a sound structure requires a sound foundation. That means I do not make any of the popular "appeals" in trying to convince anyone of the truth of Christianity. Argument from Design, First Cause, and other attempts to make scientific arguments for the existence of God are logically flawed, and while they might convince some people, those people's faith will be shaken when someone inevitably comes along and illustrates the flaws of those arguments.

God and science may not be opposed, but you can't use science to prove His existence, either. It doesn't work that way, at least not with what we know now. There are those who pour over the latest publications of physicists, hoping some subatomic discovery will show the "fingerprints of God."

Here is why I think that is wrong: God is not sloppy. He is infinite, therefore His work is infinite in scope. If you think God created the universe by just slapping it together over a few layers of complexity that we'd be able to see through with a strong enough microscope, then you do Him an injustice.

Now, perhaps He might have intended for it to become apparent to us at some point prior to the Second Coming of Christ, but if that is His will, it shall be done at His leisure, not on our schedule. To go out looking for it is to beat your head against a wall. I would say the same thing of those who try to hold up the mysteries not yet solved by science as if they constitute proof of God. Well, if building your faith on the Argument of First Cause is like building your house on a foundation of sand, then doing this is like building on a melting sheet of ice. These gaps in scientific knowledge get smaller every year, and as discoveries build upon each other, this will happen at a faster and faster rate.

As Christians, we should not try to hijack science any more than we should try to fight it. Our attempts to do so will be invariably clumsy, and the rationalizations for them quickly dispelled and disproven. What sort of self hate could impel us as Christians to expose ourselves to such unrelenting embarrassment? What words of Scripture demand of us that we make such fuss over

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