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Further 10 · after the twelve weeks

Christianity and science

Are faith and the lab at war?

Week 1 uses the beginning of the cosmos. Week 2 uses fine-tuning. Skeptics answer both with the conflict thesis. The 2026 book treats that thesis as history done badly.

See it

Shorts, slide decks, and infographics that belong with this page.

Slide deck · 12 slidesThe modern classical foundationSlide deck · 15 slidesThe philosophical arguments for faithShortWhy is there something rather than nothing?ShortUnpacking the teleological argumentInfographicThe cosmological argumentInfographicThe teleological argument

What the book puts on the table

  • The cosmological argument treats the lab as a witness, not a rival: expansion from a start is what physics reports. Hilbert’s Hotel is the philosophical twin of that beginning.
  • Modern science was born in a world that expected a rational Creator and a lawful creation.
  • Kepler, Newton, and Maxwell were not clocking out of their minds to pray.
  • Scientism — ‘only science yields truth’ — is not a scientific sentence.
  • Evolution, where it is a biological description, is not automatically an atheist creed.

Say this

I am grateful for the lab. I do not ask it to do the work of a worldview. The men who built the lab did not either.

If they say…

“Evolution disproves God.”

A mechanism is not a metaphysics. God can work through secondary causes. The leap from ‘change over time’ to ‘no Creator’ is smuggled, not measured.

Scripture

“Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.”

Psalm 111:2

After this week

Tonight · about an hour

Host this session

  1. Open · 5 min

    Read the question out loud: “Are faith and the lab at war?” No speeches yet.

  2. Look · 15 min

    One person reads the thesis and the points. Everyone else watches for the sentence they do not yet believe.

  3. Talk · 25 min

    1. The cosmological argument treats the lab as a witness, not a rival: expansion from a start is what physics reports. Hilbert’s Hotel is the philosophical twin of that beginning.
    2. Modern science was born in a world that expected a rational Creator and a lawful creation.
    3. Kepler, Newton, and Maxwell were not clocking out of their minds to pray.

  4. Speak · 10 min

    Use the line in “Say this” above. Once as written. Once in your own mouth.

  5. Send · 5 min

    Each person names one conversation this week where they will try a question instead of a speech.