by Eli Chisholm

Created on: October 17, 2008

I'm saying yes, with a caveat, that being that the discussion should not be strictly relegated to the Christian God. If the discussion only centers around YHVH, then no; the discrepancies between the two are so vast as to be irreconcilable. If, however, we are talking about the coexistance of Darwinism and spirituality and the belief of a higher power, then I wholeheartedly believe that the two can be harmoniously incorporated into each other. Even within Christianity, actually, there is room for acceptance, if you are capable of stretching your faith a little bit.

The idea that pure science and faith in divinity as being separate and insoluble has always confounded me. I am a deeply spiritual and religious person, but I am also analytically minded and a scientist/engineer at heart. Possibly because of my upbringing and personal choices, I find no reason why the two can't exist together, and have in fact made for myself a world view exactly as such. Please, if you'll let me, I'd like to show you the universe as seen through my eyes.

Take a look around you. Everywhere you look, immutable laws are in effect. Unsupported objects fall to the Earth at 9.8 m/s^2, every time so long as they do not have any arresting forces on them. Airfoils on birds, planes, helicoptors and gliders follow the laws of Aerodynamics, and behave within those immutable laws. Matter behaves in the manner in which it always has, and always will. Electricity never does anything new and unexpected. The basic laws of Thermodynamics are the base principles that hold our existance together, and without them we would be lost to entropy or consumed in brilliant energy. These things are laws written into our universe, and are unchanging.

They also all work in absolute harmony; one law does not contradict the other at any time, and everything fits together. If even one thing was off, the universe would collapse, or be uninhabitable. And, excluding type II-IV multiverse models and Superstring Theory, this is the only universe we've got. Statistically, the probability of all of the variables, all of the constants, all of the laws fitting together by chance or coincidence are astronomical.

Laws and harmonies such as what we observe in our world practically scream logical and ordered design, and the more we learn, the more the whole picture looks contrived from intelligence. Taking that assumption, I am forced to believe in a higher, formative power that created the laws of the universe that allow life to

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