Why Am I Writing on these Subjects?

Science as it has been understood for the last 400+ years has been in continual tension with a Biblical worldview. It is easy for man to think that he can have dominion/mastery over nature by means of theories which utilize mathematical formulas. It is true that many of the early modern “scientists” held a high view God and the Bible, and saw no contradiction between their faith and experiments doing and theories they were creating. In fact, it could be argued that many of them were doing science because of their religious faith. It certainly appears that God has created the world in a fixed mathematical way, but how are we to understand (and teach) this from a Biblical perspective?

In order to answer this question, it is necessary to understand that everyone has a worldview, and that a person’s worldview is always determined by certain unprovable presuppositions/assumptions. I hold that the presuppositions of a Christian’s worldview must begin with God as He has revealed Himself in His word (the Bible & Christ). These blogs will always have this as the underlying premise, even if it is not explicitly stated in a given blog.

It is important also to have clear definitions of terms, so I will spend some time in these blogs to define terms.

It is also important to understand the key scientists and their discoveries, and try to understand what they were doing, and especially why they were trying to do it. This will necessarily mean covering a lot more of the history (and philosophy, and theology) of science than is typically covered in standard secular and Christian science textbooks.

Finally, this approach has direct implications on how to teach science (& math) from a Biblical perspective. I plan on covering these implications in the blogs.