We may admit that some Christians do bad science. This may be especially true of those who argue for a young earth (e.g. one less than 50000 years old). But belief in God and even the Bible itself does not require one to believe in such theories. Even the word for day "yom" in the Biblical accounts in Genesis 1 and 2 certainly need not stand for 24 hours. See Reasons to Believe and other writings by Dr. Hugh Ross and others for more on this. The best astronomical estimates indicate that the Big Bang happened about 17 billion years ago. It turns out that even with billions of years of time, there still just isn't enough time for life to appear by random chance.
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Science is a method in which observations about the physical universe are made, patterns are observed, theories and mathematical models are proposed and experiments are constructed to verify the accuracy or otherwise of the theory. Understanding more about the normal operation of the physical universe will never demonstrate that a spiritual world does not exist. In fact, for theistic thinkers, the incredible 'lucky' co-incidences in the laws of physics which make a physical universe like ours possible strongly suggest that there must be a Designer out there. Even a famous agnostic physicist has said, 'It seems that someone has monkeyed with the laws of physics'. This evidence for design extends to the realms of chemistry and biology.
Many of the greatest scientists the world has known were Christians (e.g. Pasteur, Pascal, Newton, Faraday). Many more scientists, although not Christians, were convinced by what they observed in the Universe that there must be an intelligent Designer - a Creator God. Albert Einstein was in this category. Although the religion of secular humanism has largely hijacked the sciences and the education system in general, there are still many brilliant Christian scientists in the world today (e.g. Dr. Hugh Ross, Dr. A.E. Wilder Smith et. al.).
A lot of scientists may come out in favor of an
agnostic, materialistic world-view. It is the natural tendency of any kind
of specialist to try to reduce the world to the terms of his particular
field of interest. Remember that not everything scientists say is scientifically
based (just ask their wives - or husbands!) It is actually outside the
scope of science as such to make pronouncements on the existence or otherwise
of things not describable by mathematics. Science can never prove that
there is no God, because science can never reveal everything, even about
the physical universe. (The uncertainty principle of Heisenberg is a small
example of this). Science can help us see how things wo
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