Christianity is an Evidence Based Faith

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Perhaps one of the most common objections a believer will get from the world goes something like this: “There’s just no evidence for Christianity.” Substitute “Christianity” here with “the bible” or “God” or any other similar thing depending on the situation. But is this true? The answer is that Christianity is actually very much based on evidence, and evidence is something that God was very intentional about providing because it is He who created our analytical minds and knows us better than we know ourselves.

In Romans 1:20, Paul says that God made creation in such a way that mankind is without excuse. What does this mean? It means that we do not need the bible to know there is a Creator. The things in the world testify to an organizing, infinite mind that is itself uncreated and eternal. With all of our breakthroughs in science and mathematics, the truth is that we still do not understand reality on a fundamental level. Rather, we have just gotten really good at describing things that happen in reality to the point where we can make relatively educated predictions given enough information most of the time.

This is very important to grasp, so let me break it down. Knowing how something behaves is not the same as understanding it. We know that if a sperm fertilizes an egg a series of chemical reactions happen that eventually lead to a baby coming out of the womb nine months later. We can categorize and measure nearly every stage of this process, yet despite all of that information we still do not understand what life really is. What makes something living and something not living? At what point do things become animated with life and why? We haven’t the faintest idea why because it is a mystery.

This fundamental level of mystery is important to connect to because the truth is we really don’t know nearly as much as we think we do. In today’s culture we have come to worship science as the prime authority on all things, to the point where those representing it have become like priests and anyone against “the science” deemed a heretic. For starters, the science is never settled on anything, and if we approach science with humility and acceptance of our fundamental ignorance of life’s mysteries —then and only then can we do science clearly.