Sermons

What a cruel joke for God to play! Besides that, if time is actually infinite, and if the world is only 6000 years old, why did God wait so long to begin? What was God doing before creating the universe? -Oh, God was busy preparing Hell for those who asked too many questions. In 1968, Stephen Hawking arrived at some equations that expanded on parts of Einstein’s general relativity theory, and they supported the theory that time itself did have a beginning, just as matter, energy, and space itself had a beginning. Everything began in an explosive “singularity.” If you were writing Genesis in light of modern science, you could say, “God created a big bang, and there was a beginning; there was light.” (paraphr. Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell, p. 38).
Many of us in this sanctuary probably believe that the debate between scientific and religious worldviews is a debate conducted in two languages, and it’s not really important. Well, it is. For two reasons: First, 2005 has been declared by somebody to be the Worldwide year of Physics, because it’s the hundredth birthday of the publication of two or three of Albert Einstein’s most significant works. It is also important because the proponents of Biblical fundamentalism are still seeking to inject religion into the teaching of science in our public schoolsfollowing declaimer into the front cover of your child’s biology textbook: “Because Darwin's Theory is a theory, it is still being tested as new evidence is discovered. The Theory is not a fact. Gaps in the Theory exist for which there is no evidence. A theory is defined as a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations.” Things like that actually happen in American school districts. In places like Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma and Ohio, science is still being attacked, 80 years after the Scopes “monkey trial.”

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