The Way Matt Sees It

Pope Francis has recently declared that The Big Bang Theory and the Theory of Evolution are true, and that God is not “a magician with a magic wand.”   Read the article here and here . A few thoughts: GOD, THE GREAT MAGICIAN The Pope says that we shouldn’t view God as “a magician with a magic wand.”   This is quite silly.   How would the Pope (or scientists, or anyone else for that matter) know concretely how God created the world?   There is in fact no way of knowing for sure.   We can try our best to research and discover, but postulating how God actually created the universe is mere speculation.   The Pope may be rejecting one view of creation, but this doesn’t mean that God couldn’t have created the world that way.   God’s power is not restricted by our limited understanding of it.   Science is best understood in the words of Johannes Kepler: “Science is thinking God’s thoughts after him.”   It isn’t religion vs. sc...

A FALSE DICHOTOMY What if Evolution and Creation weren’t enemies?   What if both were true?     If you watched the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham debate, you probably were under the impression that this statement simply can’t be correct.   In fact, my biggest “gripe” with the debate was this picture painted by both sides.   The entire debate seemed to indicate that being a Christian was synonymous with believing in Young Earth Creationism.   Ken Ham especially emphasized this point: that trusting in the reliability of the Bible must mean ascribing to Young Earth Creationism. However, this is simply not the case.   My hope is that no one walked away feeling like they couldn’t believe in the claims of the Bible because they don’t agree with Young Earth Creationism.   I personally agreed more with what Bill Nye had to say! My favorite Bill Nye moment: If the Flood happened only 4,000 years ago, and there were only 7,000 species on the Ark, ...