Does Science Disprove God? Origins, Miracles, and Worship

Devotional

Day 1: When Lab Coats and Bibles Shared the Same Shelf

Science didn’t emerge to oppose faith—it grew from it. Pioneers like Newton, Faraday, and Kepler studied creation because they believed a rational God designed it. Their work wasn’t a rejection of Scripture but a pursuit of its Author. Modern science’s Christian roots remind us truth isn’t fragmented: the God who spoke galaxies into being also wired curious minds to explore them. When we separate science and faith, we miss the harmony of a Creator who invites discovery. [09:57]

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1, ESV)

Reflection: How does knowing many scientific pioneers sought God’s design in creation reshape your view of everyday wonders—like gravity or a sunset?

Day 2: The Microscope Can’t Measure Meaning

Science explains how cells divide or stars burn, but it stays silent on why love heals or beauty stirs the soul. It maps DNA yet can’t decode the dignity of an image-bearer. These unanswered questions aren’t gaps—they’re signposts. The physical world whispers of a reality beyond atoms: a God who authors purpose, morality, and eternal longing. [13:35]

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11, ESV)

Reflection: Where have you sensed eternity’s pull—in a song, a relationship, or a quiet moment—that science couldn’t explain?

Day 3: The Ring Nobody Wins

The real fight isn’t science vs. faith—it’s naturalism vs. a universe alive with God. Naturalism claims atoms are all; Christianity declares creation sings its Maker’s praise. Carl Sagan’s “cosmos is all” clashes with Hebrews’ “Jesus is the same forever.” Only one worldview explains both quarks and compassion, neurons and worship. [21:22]

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8, ESV)

Reflection: When have you felt torn between “just the facts” and the deeper story of God’s presence? How did you resolve it?

Day 4: The Bang That Echoed Genesis

The Big Bang wasn’t a secular mic drop—it echoed Genesis 1:1. A cosmic beginning demands a Beginner, a Creator outside time. Even skeptics admit the universe had a start, yet believers knew it first: “In the beginning, God…” Science’s “how” meets theology’s “Who,” proving faith isn’t blind. [24:38]

“By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God.” (Hebrews 11:3, ESV)

Reflection: How does the universe’s finite beginning deepen your awe for the infinite God who launched it?

Day 5: Demons Nod, Disciples Kneel

Belief alone is a starting line, not the finish. Demons know theology (James 2:19) but reject surrender. True faith moves from agreeing God exists to letting Him rewrite your life. It’s the difference between admiring a rescue boat and climbing aboard. [30:38]

“You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!” (James 2:19, ESV)

Reflection: Where is God asking you to trade nodding approval for active trust this week?

Sermon Summary

Science does not square up against faith like a boxer in a ring. Science grew out of faith’s confidence that a rational God made a rational world that could be studied. Genesis locates that conviction by opening with “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” and John says “all things were made through him.” CS Lewis’s line helps the frame: people expected law in nature because they believed in a Lawgiver. The early pioneers Newton, Kepler, Pascal, Boyle, Faraday, Mendel, and Pasteur practiced science because creation was intelligible under God’s care.

The Bible does not try to be a lab manual. Scripture reveals who God is, what it means to bear his image, why creation is good, how sin entered, and where redemption is headed. Modern questions like precise timelines and mechanisms can be probed, but Genesis mainly answers who and why, not every how and when. Good models can be weighed, but two fixed posts remain firm. God is the sovereign, uncreated Creator, and human beings are made in God’s image, male and female.

The real conflict is not science versus faith, but Christianity versus naturalism. Naturalism says nature is all there is. Christianity says Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and that everything came into being through him. Modern cosmology’s discovery that the universe had a beginning actually fits that confession. A beginning to space, time, matter, and energy points beyond the system to an agent who is not bound by it.

Faith is more than nodding at arguments. James says even demons believe and shudder. Romans 10 says salvation joins heart-belief that God raised Jesus with confessing Jesus as Lord. Belief without lordship stalls out. Lordship moves belief into prayer, obedience, worship, service, and love. Belief is a start. Following Jesus is the life.

Key Takeaways

1. Science grew from belief in a Lawgiver [10:29] Science’s founders expected order because they trusted the Creator’s rationality. That expectation birthed methods that test, measure, and repeat. The intelligibility of nature sits comfortably inside a Christian frame. Scientific work becomes an act of studying God’s world with humility and joy. [10:29]
2. Scripture reveals God, not lab data [11:43] The Bible was not written to map DNA or diagram pasteurization. Scripture tells who God is, what went wrong, and how God saves through Jesus. Treating it like a textbook misreads its aim and sets up straw-man critiques. Let science answer lab questions while Scripture answers meaning, morality, and destiny. [11:43]
3. Genesis answers who and why [16:21] Genesis establishes Creator, creation’s goodness, human dignity, and the reality of sin. Modern people crave timelines and mechanisms, but the text centers vocation and worship. Good models can be explored, yet the anchor points remain fixed. God made all things and stamped his image on humanity. [16:21]
4. The real clash is naturalism vs Christianity [20:28] The question is not microscopes against Bibles, but rival worldviews. Naturalism claims nature is all there is, while Christianity proclaims a living God who made and sustains all things. One story flattens meaning into matter and chance. The other grounds purpose, morality, and hope in Christ. [20:28]
5. Belief must become lived lordship [31:41] Saving faith is more than agreeing God exists. Romans weds heart-belief in the risen Jesus to confessing him as Lord, which reorders habits, desires, and loyalties. James warns that bare belief can sit lifeless. Lordship pulls faith into action that looks like prayer, obedience, and love. [31:41]

Youtube Chapters

[00:00] - Welcome
[00:43] - Summer AMA and resources
[02:44] - Questions are healthy, 1 Corinthians 13:12
[05:04] - Has science disproven God?
[07:28] - Culture’s science-versus-faith picture
[08:46] - Roots of modern science
[10:29] - Law in nature, Lawgiver
[11:43] - Bible and science, different lanes
[16:21] - Genesis answers who and why
[18:25] - Non-negotiables: Creator and image
[20:28] - Worldview clash, not science clash
[23:39] - The universe had a beginning
[31:41] - Beyond belief to Lordship
[34:36] - The gospel at the center
[35:36] - Invitation to follow Jesus

Bible Study Guide

Bible Reading
Genesis 1:1 (ESV)
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Genesis 1:27 (ESV)
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

Romans 10:9-10 (ESV)
"Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved."

Observation Questions

According to Genesis 1:1 and 1:27, what two truths about God and humanity are non-negotiable?
Romans 10:9-10 links belief with confession. What specific actions or attitudes does this passage associate with salvation?
The sermon mentioned that science grew from the belief in a rational Lawgiver ([10:29]). What examples of early scientists were given, and what motivated their work?
How does James 2:19 (referenced in the sermon) challenge the idea that belief alone is sufficient?

Interpretation Questions

Why does Genesis focus on answering who created the world and why humans exist, rather than providing scientific details about how or when creation happened?
The sermon contrasts naturalism (“nature is all there is”) with Christianity’s claim that “everything came into being through Christ” ([22:09]). How do these worldviews lead to different conclusions about human purpose and morality?
If “belief without lordship stalls out” ([31:41]), how does Romans 10:9-10 redefine what it means to truly follow Jesus?
The universe having a beginning points to a Creator outside the system ([24:03]). Why might this discovery challenge a naturalistic worldview?

Application Questions

The sermon warns against treating the Bible as a science textbook ([11:43]). How can you shift your focus to Scripture’s primary purpose—knowing God and his plan—when questions about science arise?
Genesis 1:27 says humans are made in God’s image. What practical difference should this truth make in how you view yourself and treat others this week?
Romans 10:9-10 ties belief to confessing Jesus as Lord. What area of your life (habits, relationships, priorities) needs to align more fully with His lordship?
The sermon challenges believers to move beyond intellectual agreement to “prayer, obedience, worship, service, and love” ([31:41]). Which of these actions feels most neglected in your walk with God, and how can you prioritize it?
If science is “studying God’s world with humility and joy” ([10:29]), how might you engage with scientific discoveries (e.g., medicine, cosmology) as opportunities to worship the Creator?
Naturalism reduces life to “matter and chance” ([20:28]). Where have you seen this worldview influence your culture? How can you intentionally counter it with the hope of Christ in conversations?

Sermon Clips

Well, listen. Sometimes skeptics and Christians make the same mistake. They both assume this the Bible is trying to function like a modern science textbook. Right? So the skeptics will attack it on that basis. Say, oh, see, the Bible said this. It's not exactly in line with science. But Christians also, we feel forced to defend it as a science textbook. We try to come up with all these things and make it say things it's not saying when in fact, the bible isn't concerned with, again, a lot of specifics of of the scientific method or things like that. What is it concerned with? It's concerned with God revealing himself to humanity. [00:14:04] (35 seconds)

Here's the deal. We get into trouble when we try to make the Bible solve problems it wasn't concerned with solving, or it isn't concerned with solving. Or we try to make science solve problems it's not capable of solving. For example, the Bible was not written to teach us about DNA sequencing or pasteurization. Right? Well, let me let me find that chapter in Lamentations on pasteurization. It's not good. Well, anyway, it's not you're not gonna find it. Right? [00:11:35] (29 seconds)

You're not gonna find it. But science on the other hand, it can tell us about pasteurization, DNA sequencing, a bunch of stuff that's way over my head. You know what I'm saying? But science can't tell you why your life has meaning. Science ultimately can't tell you where life originated from. It can try, and it's been trying for years in in labs and different things to figure out how to create life, and they haven't been able to do that yet. Right? [00:12:04] (24 seconds)

So to be honest with you, the whole foundations of science as we know it were for a lot of it was from Christian believers that said, hey. I believe in God. I believe he's rational. I wanna understand his creation. And, you know, fast forward a few hundred years, here we are, and now we have this apparent clash, you know, of, oh, science versus faith. But really, people started investigating science and medicine and things like that because of a belief in God, not because of they didn't believe in God. Right? But listen. Why do so many people think faith and science are at odds? If that's the case, if it started out that way. [00:11:01] (34 seconds)

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