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“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” –Hebrews 11<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Wisdom.<\/a>

Wisdom. Tiziano Vecellio. 1560.<\/p><\/div>\n

Science is not the opposite of Christianity, but it is almost the opposite of faith.\u00a0 Faith is a hope in the unseen.\u00a0 Science is an expression of the seen.\u00a0 It is inherently skeptical.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t see it, over and over it\u2019s not science.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t question it and then come to the same conclusion over and over, it\u2019s not science.\u00a0 Faith says, Christ is going to take over the world even though I am trapped in the Roman Empire and persecuted by the Jewish leaders. . . written by a Christian 6700 miles away.\u00a0 Science says, I don\u2019t know how this virus works or how best to treat it, so I am going to observe it over and over in a lot of people and follow best practices to get to the truth.<\/p>\n

Then we have another thing all together, applying the truth of science.\u00a0 Then that faith thing comes in handy again.\u00a0 Do the people handling that science have an incentive to pervert the conclusions?\u00a0 Are they ruled by a faith in an ultimate God who will hold them accountable to a moral standard?\u00a0 Or do they have faith in themselves, as pure materialists who only care about enriching themselves? \u00a0 Putting religious faith in science is called scientism.\u00a0 And unfortunately it is all to rampant.\u00a0 It tries to go beyond the scope of science as a search for truth created under the umbrella of Christendom.\u00a0 God\u2019s world works a certain way, we can know that, so we should do our best to understand and use this truth for the betterment of our fellow man, as governed by God\u2019s moral law.\u00a0 Scientism makes science the ultimate authority, and denies truth arrived at in any other way.\u00a0 Even though this is never consistent.\u00a0 Minds seeking answers to ultimate questions is just nonsense.\u00a0 Nevertheless they try.\u00a0 And cutting out the word of the Creator from your life, just makes a really big mess.\u00a0 Trying to substitute the findings of social science without the morality of God, and then implementing these findings in the form of social programs, has lead to countless deaths.\u00a0 Some of these fields are starting to catch up to the wisdom found in Proverbs or Psalms, but they will never know as much about people as the one who made them.<\/p>\n

Chesterton says that heresy is taking any one thing and making it the only thing.\u00a0 This is currently happening even in scientism.\u00a0 People from one field think that their field is the only thing that matters.\u00a0 They become monomaniacs, ignoring thousands of suicide deaths because they are not caused by a spike protein.\u00a0 The idea of a university, is a Christian thing.\u00a0 Christ is a unifying force.\u00a0 Without Christ, there is nothing to make the whole world connected in any sensible way.\u00a0 Separate fields are just separate fields.\u00a0 But we Christians should know that in Him all things live and move and have their being.\u00a0 This is his world and he sets the ultimate purposes.\u00a0 The world is not just one segment.\u00a0 Economic mechanisms don\u2019t explain everything.\u00a0 Biological mechanisms don’t explain everything.\u00a0 Christ is King, he is ruling, he makes the script, he defines the \u2018why\u2019 and the direction of the world.\u00a0 We are in his world doing various things.\u00a0 We are not in an epidemiological world.\u00a0 We are in a Christian world.\u00a0 We should act like it.<\/p>\n

Paul exhorts the Corinthians not to take their legal case before secular judges, because we as Christians have the ultimate standard in the Old Testament(I Cor. 6<\/a>).\u00a0 We should know how laws and justice work better than anyone.\u00a0 This also applies to understanding men and groups of men, kingly wisdom.\u00a0 We can see God interacting with his people in countless examples in the Old Testament.\u00a0 We have the rich wisdom in the Proverbs, laying out the way this world works.\u00a0 We have the emotion of the Psalms which should calibrate our feelings to a true standard.\u00a0 Stop putting your faith in science.<\/p>\n

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