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\nYou Are My Rock featuring Lucy Rutherford from the album “For Unsung Heroes” recorded and produced by Ross Gill<\/p>\nLast week I finished by saying that in Genesis, the focus is on the \u201cwhy\u201d and by \u201cwhom\u201d rather than the \u201chow\u201d – so there is no conflict with science. This week I would like to explore this point still further.<\/p>\n
Stephen Gaukroger in his book \u201cIt Makes Sense\u201d says that science makes observations, carries out experiments, formulates hypotheses, tests them, defines them and then produces a theory which it believes best explains the facts. It is trying to get at the truth as to \u201chow\u201d our world works. But science only offers one aspect of the truth. For example a scientist could say that playing a violin is \u201crubbing the entrails of a dead sheep with the hairs of a dead horse\u201d and the facts would be described accurately- but not all the facts. You would not be answering \u201cwhy\u201d the music is enjoyable and \u201cwhy\u201d the violinist is playing at all. Strictly speaking science can only answer the \u201chow\u201d questions not the \u201cwhy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gaukroger goes on to say :<\/p>\n
This is an important fact to grasp. To the question why is the grass burning a scientist could answer by talking about the presence of oxygen, the combustible nature of grass and so on but this is an explanation of \u201cwhat\u201d is happening not \u201cwhy\u201d. The answer to the \u201cwhy\u201d question could be that a cigarette was carelessly discarded or a farmer was clearing his waste ground. It is precisely in this \u201cwhy\u201d area that Christianity has so much to say. Science cannot help us with issues such as right and wrong, beauty, peace, joy and love. These subjects do not yield their secrets to the laboratory or the study. God cannot be put under a microscope or the Christian faith examined in a test tube. These things are beyond the scope of scientific enquiry.<\/em><\/p>\nNext week I will look at scientists who are also Christian\/ Christians who are also scientists. Can I make a start? – Isaac Newton – yes the apple – gravity and all that!<\/p>\n
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