CCP155: On the Science of Faith

Jun 27, 2025

Delve into the fascinating interplay between science and Christian faith, showing how they can coexist. Explore the historical shift from collaboration to conflict between science and spirituality. Discover how belief in divine miracles can coexist with scientific principles. Contemplate the void of purpose in a Godless world and the importance of personal relationships with God. Lastly, reflect on the significance of Jesus' incarnation in living out one's faith.

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INSIGHT

All Truth Is God's Truth

If God exists, all truth—including scientific truth—is God's truth.
Therefore, scientific discoveries should complement rather than contradict faith.

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Christianity Originated Modern Science

Modern science arose from a Christian worldview believing in a created, ordered universe.
This faith motivated the study of nature's laws as discoverable and meaningful.

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Science's Invisible Atheism

Secular science often excludes God a priori, treating the supernatural as unscientific.
This presupposition limits where scientific inquiry is allowed to go.

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This summer, we're taking a short break from our regular podcast format, and instead have selected various installments from past message series given by James Emery White at Mecklenburg Community Church where he serves as the Senior Pastor. Today's episode comes from a series we called "The Science of God" with this installment focusing on "The Science of Faith." You see, there are many deal-breakers for those who are unchurched when it comes to the Christian faith. The biggest deal-breaker, though, seems to be what lies in the realm of public truth, meaning science. The existence of God, creation, evolution, the latest discoveries in astrophysics... that's where people long for answers. But how do you find answers when it comes to something like faith?

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Below you'll find the link to the full series if that's something you are interested in checking out, along with the sources that were used in the development of the message itself:

"The Science of God"

Ed Stetzer, “When Will Churches Be Back? Vital Information for Churches and Christian Leaders,” Christianity Today, January 13, 2021.

Ian Barbour, When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? (London: SPCK, 2000).

For an informed critique of many of the more popular aspects of applied naturalism, see Phillip E. Johnson, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995).

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995).

How I Changed My Mind About Evolution: Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science, ed. by Kathryn Applegate and J.B. Stump (IVP).

Nietzsche's famed “God is dead” passage can be found in section 125 of The Gay Science, available in The Portable Nietzsche, ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Penguin, 1982).

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