Strong Reasons: An Apologetic of the Christian Faith

What has science to do with faith? As it happens, a great deal. Yet in popular imagination science and faith are about as compatible as sugar and sand. Mix them together and you spoil both! But without faith – and a large dollop of it – there would be no science. The entire enterprise (as we shall see) rests upon several leaps of faith. Indeed, where science is rightly understood, it should lead irresistibly on toward that highest faith of all – trust in the living God. Does not the scripture say – “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the skies reveal his handiwork. Day after day brings its message; night after night bears faithful witness. … Their testimony goes out across the whole earth; their words reach to the end of time.” (Ps 19:1). “What can be known about God has been made plain to all mankind, for God himself has shown it to them. From the time the world was first created his limitless power and eternal nature, which were invisible, have been made visible, and able to be understood, by the things he has made. So they are without excuse.” (Ro 1:19-20)