GOD vs Science

Is Science in opposition of or in support of God?

The stories of the Bible are often viewed as fantasy—even by some of the people who claim to believe them. And one of the most common assumptions is that the laws of science are either indifferent to God or in direct opposition to Him.

I don’t see it that way at all.

I believe that without the order that God established in this universe, science wouldn't even be possible. The very foundation of the scientific method depends on consistent laws—laws that don’t change, laws that apply everywhere. That kind of order doesn’t come from randomness. It comes from design.

In his letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul puts it like this:

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”—Romans 1:20

This isn’t abstract theology. Paul is pointing directly to the natural world—creation itself—as evidence of God’s existence and character.

The Consistent Laws That Hold the Universe Together

Nature, as we know it, is governed by what we call laws—scientific generalizations based on observation. These aren’t just good guesses or traditions. These are rules we’ve discovered that everything in the universe plays by.

And it’s these same unchanging laws that make the scientific method possible. You form a hypothesis, test it, observe the results, and replicate it. If the results are consistent, the conclusion holds—and you’ve established a principle that can be trusted across time and space.

But what if those laws weren’t consistent?

What if the laws of physics changed over time, of if the physics changed as the universe expanded, or even from place to place? What if gravity pulled one way on Earth but a different way on Jupiter, or randomly flipped in direction every decade?

We wouldn’t have science. We wouldn’t have technology. We wouldn’t have understanding. Without fixed natural laws, the scientific method would be meaningless, and our entire modern world would collapse with it.

That’s why this order—the consistency of it all—isn’t something to take for granted. It’s not just convenient. It’s divine.

Faith and the Limits of Evolution

Now here’s where things get interesting. Many who reject belief in God accuse believers of relying on faith rather than facts. But science, at its boundaries, requires faith too.

Take evolution, for example. Not microevolution within species, but the macroevolutionary claim that one kind of creature transforms into another kind entirely over time. This is something that has never been directly observed. It can’t be repeated in a lab, and the scientific method can’t prove it in the way it proves chemical reactions or gravity. In that sense, accepting evolution as a complete explanation for life’s diversity still requires an element of belief, just like any worldview.

"...the law of nature alone is what forces evolution to be accepted through faith since it cannot be directly observed and the scientific method cannot be carried out to prove it."

This isn’t a denial of science—it’s a call to be honest about its limits.

The Anthropic Principle: Why the Laws Work

So why do the laws of nature never change? Why are they so precisely tuned for life?

This brings us to a belief system held by many scientists, regardless of religious belief, called the Anthropic Principle. In simple terms, it means the universe appears to be fine-tuned to support life. The physical constants—gravity, the speed of light, the strength of the electromagnetic force—are all set at exactly the right values needed for life to exist. Even a slight change in any of them would make the universe inhospitable.

Coincidence? Some say yes. I say no.

To me, this kind of precision screams design, not chance. The Anthropic Principle doesn’t just suggest that we live in a life-permitting universe—it implies that the universe was meant to support life. And if that’s true, then there is purpose. There is order. And there is a Designer behind the design.

Science Is Possible Because of God

Luckily for us, everything in creation is governed by these unchanging laws. And some of us are born with the drive to explore them—curious minds that ask how things work. That’s not random either. It’s part of the design.

I believe, just like Paul, that God reveals Himself through the consistency and beauty of the natural world. He didn’t just create the universe—He made it make sense. Scientists can explain how the laws work. But who can explain why they’re there at all? Why they hold, why they never shift, why they’re so mathematical, precise, and elegant?

Nature is predictable: objects fall at the same rate, chemical reactions yield the same results, and light always travels at the same speed. That predictability is what gives science its power. But it’s also what gives God’s fingerprint away.

Because in the end, even the most committed scientist has to put faith in one critical assumption: that nature will continue to behave tomorrow the same way it did today.

And that’s not a bad place to start believing.