How much knowledge has science revealed to us in the last century? Enormous advances in the understanding of chemistry, our planet, and even the whole universe can't even be calculated.
About a hundred years ago, science made an enormous change in its understanding of the universe. Prevailing theory had said that the universe was probably eternal. But new discoveries showed that the universe really had a starting point about 13.8 billion years ago - in other words, that the universe was finite.
In 1931, British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington said he didn't like this development: "Philosophically the notion of a beginning of the present order of nature is repugnant to me . . I should like to find a genuine loophole."
Why repugnant, disgusting? Eddington didn't want to hear any scientific evidence that challenged his materialism (the belief that nothing supernatural exists). The evidence might show that God created the universe.
Christians, like Dr. Stephen Meyer in our time, have no problem with the scientific evidence.
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