I came across the video above where Todd Friel speaks of a recent
article in the New York Times entitled “The
Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response.”
In it, the author complains that the “religious right” has done all it could to
dismantle the scaffolding of science and that, due to that fact, our current
crisis has been made worse. Of course, whenever a liberal (and the New York
Times is perhaps the preeminent liberal paper in the country) wants to complain
about Christianity, which is equated almost without exception with the
religious right, they will link it with Trump and the Republicans as if by reflex.
To the liberal left, Christianity is the Republican party and the Republican
party stands for Christianity.
Throughout the article, the author
bemoans that Christians and the Trump administration specifically, have made a shambles
of science and that they are guilty of not listening to expert opinion—read
scientific “consensus.” The irony in all this is that the left likes to think
of itself as the enlightened caste who have left the childish belief in a “god”
for the more intellectually stimulating and rewarding scientific consensus. Paul
spoke of how the “god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers”
in 2 Corinthians 4, and the god of this world takes a lot of forms. And for
today’s society, especially in the West, that form is the scientific community
and its enlightened consensus. Whatever some liberal scientist has to say is
law to today’s empty headed liberal. It is with a great deal of irony that one
has to look at the folks who are so proud of their “open minds,” but who in
reality have allowed their brains to fall out of that opened window.
As brother Friel correctly points out in
the video, Christianity is not, cannot be opposed to real science. And that is
simply because real science is God’s science. As Cornelius Van Till said in a
different context, but that holds true in every area of life, all truth is God’s
truth. If science has said anything that is true, then it has only discovered
the truth that God created into that particular substance, discipline or philosophy.
And science is no exception. The scientific truths that have been discovered
over the centuries, have been discovered simply because God allowed man to do
so. But instead of recognizing that fact, like the scientists who made some of
the greatest discoveries in history, today’s scientist has made of science itself
a god to which they must bow and to which everyone must offer the pinch of incense.
If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ,
you have nothing to fear from science. And if any “scientist” tells you that
God does not exist, or that if He does exists, He is not in control or is
somehow helpless, you can go ahead and laugh (do it inside, you don’t want to
be rude)! And after you compose yourself, politely and lovingly tell the person
that they know nothing of the God of heaven and that you have the answer to his
ignorance. We cannot be arrogant, but cannot stand by and allow folks to go
happily into hell thinking that they have all the answers. The love of Christ and
the God who is there demand that we live always with eternity in the front of
our minds.
