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Choose faith until you better understand science—or until science can provide better explanations. By Jamie Haslam Jensen (BS ’99, MS ’03) in the Winter 2021 Issue. Illustrations by Simon Pemberton. A battle has been raging for centuries, a battle between faith and science, a conflict that is tragic and completely unnecessary.
- Defining The Nature of Science
- Defining The Nature of Faith
- Science as An Agnostic Approach
- The God of The Gaps
- Comfort with Uncertainty
- Bringing Faith and Science Together
- Act—Do Not Just Be Acted Upon
- Conclusion
I will begin with the first. As a scientist, I find comfort and friendly familiarity in the walls of a scientific laboratory. I find joy and wonder in the beauty of logic and evidence and all things analytical. I find comfort and safety in the defendable explanations provided by science. It is just the way that I think—much to the chagrin of my hus...
Now let’s talk about the nature or seeking of religious truths. It is an entirely different epistemology, but it is not entirely different in the process. The main difference is in the evidence. When I was in graduate school, my major professor often challenged me about my belief in God and how I could possibly reconcile it with the science I was s...
I want to go back to something my professor had claimed: that the scientific evidence proves there is no God. He is gravely mistaken, and this misconception has driven many people away from God in their pursuit of science. This misconception is that science is atheistic. In a well-done study at Arizona State University, my colleagues surveyed more ...
This brings me to another important principle I would like to discuss that, if understood correctly, can help to save your faith. This principle is to avoid a “God of the gaps.” What is a God of the gaps? It is when an individual inserts God as an explanation for anything that science cannot currently explain. For example, the ancient Greeks create...
I want to discuss another issue that helps preserve your faith, and that issue is dogmatism versus a comfort with uncertainty. In our world today, dogmatism abounds. Dogmatism is “the tendency to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true, without consideration of evidence or the opinions of others.”8Does this sound familiar in today’s political ...
Now that we have discussed and hopefully better understand these two epistemologies, I want to turn my discussion to how using both ways of knowing can deeply bless your lives. Let me share an example of how it has profoundly blessed my life in the midst of deep trial and sorrow. After I had been married for a few years and just before I finished ...
Let me share another story. When I was a young child, I suffered from anxiety that often manifested itself as a sour stomach. There were many nights when you could find me stranded in the bathroom praying my little heart out for relief. My mom would always say to me, “God helps those who help themselves,” as she would hand me a cup of baking soda w...
Symbiosisis a term we use in biology to indicate an interaction between two different organisms living together in a dependent and often beneficial relationship. Likewise, faith and science should live symbiotically in our hearts and in our minds as we search for truth in our lives. Let me share one last story about a little book that my son built ...
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Oct 20, 2022 · Faith and science are often seen as conflicting approaches in the search for truth—including within the Latter-day Saint community. For example, Joseph Fielding Smith and B. H. Roberts disagreed about whether science or scripture should take priority in the debate over evolution (see the story in Saints 3). In this interview.
Nov 3, 2020 · “Likewise, faith and science should live symbiotically in our hearts and in our minds as we search for truth in our lives.” Next Devotional: Elder Quentin L. Cook, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will deliver the devotional address on November 10, 2020, at 11:05 a.m..
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Dec 6, 2015 · Alfred North Whitehead’s view, as summarized by C.S. Lewis, was that “men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.”. It is no accident that Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Clerk-Maxwell were believers in God. Melvin Calvin, American Nobel Prize laureate in ...
Aug 4, 2015 · A major problem with debates between Christian faith and science is an inability to stay within the parameters of the nature of Christian faith and the nature of science. To help us understand the nature of Christian faith, we read in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that faith is certain since the very Word of God cannot lie and “ten ...
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Apr 30, 2019 · Science and faith are not only symbiotic, but inseparable. Religion and science fuel people to seek truth; truth can be found in religion and science. Both can work together to promote faith and truth. Award-winning chemist Henry Eyring once said, “Some have asked me ‘Is there any conflict between science and religion?’.
