Christians have been accused, most notably by Richard Dawkins, of worshipping and believing in a “God of the gaps”. That is, whatever science doesn’t yet understand is where we Christians claim God is. Is this true? Has science backed our God into a corner, so that most of our world can be observed, and the part where our God is gets smaller and smaller as knowledge increases?
Nature is the creation of God, and matter is part of that creation. Verse one of the Bible notes the creation of the space-time continuum and matter:
In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter) (Genesis 1:1).
Therefore any actions, reactions, interactions or properties of the physical realm which can be observed are not irrelevant to God’s existence but are in fact His handiwork. Denying that fact is robbing Him of the glory, love and praise He richly deserves. It’s atheists, evolutionists, agnostics and unbelieving Christians who’ve attempted to push God into what we do not know-not believers!
The New Testament sees God in the nitty-gritty of creation, stating that Christ is not apart from it or hiding away from it, but that He is intimately and perpetually involved in its makeup and maintenance:
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together (Colossians 1:17).
If there were no God there would be nothing to study! There would be no science! When you’re studying nature and its properties you’re studying what God has made, and what He holds together. You can’t see Him because He is Spirit, not matter-an inferior and far more simple essence. The evolutionist seems to reason that as the universe is physical God cannot exist; that it could not have been made by a spiritual being or by someone we can’t see. That’s very faulty logic. It makes more sense to see that what is physical came into being by a Mind far beyond the constraints and limitations of the physical. The Cause must be greater than its product.
We humans are limited, so far as we’re aware, to four dimensions, if you count time as a dimension. Yet physicists tell us that there are likely many more dimensions which we can’t detect directly. They’re beyond our ability to observe, and yet they must exist, as evidenced by the way some things behave. So then, why could there not be a God of many, or perhaps infinite dimensions, in a realm we call “heaven”, where we puny mortals, constrained by only four dimensions, cannot see?
I’m not suggesting that God must have physical dimensions as part of His nature. But why affirm one thing we can’t see while denying another? The way things behave, and their incredible properties and their beauty, are evidence for a Designer- a Creator- just as surely as the behaviour of some physical entities betrays the existence of unseen physical dimensions.
It’s very disingenuous, not to mention condescending, for the likes of Dawkins to accuse us of believing in a God of the gaps. If he knew his history of science (of course he does-he just chooses to ignore it) he would know that many of the great pioneers of science were believers in the Biblical God. Johannes Kepler, a devout Lutheran, believed that since God is rational, the universe must also be rational. Kepler was able to confirm that Copernicus was right about the Earth going around the sun, and also established his Three Laws of Planetary Motion, which stand even today. He said that humans were able in the study of nature to “…think God’s thoughts after Him” *. This is not Kepler chasing God out of one gap into others becuase he’s made some observations: it’s Kepler connecting what we see with what we can’t see.
Don’t give in to the bullying of the evolutionist who wants to thieve and hijack all of nature for his ideological satisfaction, and to rob us of open eyes and open minds of wisdom. Instead, give the glory for our incredible universe to the One who created it.
* https://colsoncenter.libsyn.com/johannes-kepler-thinking-gods-thoughts-after-him
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