Proof For God

            Living in a secular society, there are questions that will come up throughout life in our relations with non-Christians or those of other beliefs. Two big questions come up very often in the world of higher education when dealing with reason and science, which are often pitted against religion. Science often conflicts with religious beliefs and convictions so that both cannot be true "or so it seems. Are we as Christians defying the laws of reason? Is Christianity even rational?.
             Often in conservative Christian circles, a battle is portrayed between Scripture and science in which only one can be correct. As Glynn noted early in his life, "either Darwin's theory was true or the creation story in the book of Genesis was true. They could not both be true -(Glynn 3). This appearance of conflict is nothing new: Galileo faced it hundreds of years ago. To create this conflict, there must be two conflicting viewpoints. Essentially today in their purest form they are that either the world was created by God in seven days, during which time God created man out of the dust of the earth and gave him a soul and spirit in the likeness of Himself, or else the earth is a by-product of a universe which began with the big bang, and life as we know it began with an accident that evolved to become what we are today. These two separate ideas have both been pinned to fundamental ideologies that people are not willing to give up. The creation argument is attached to the infallibility of scripture, and often Christians consider any deviation from a literal interpretation to be undermining its validity as such. On the contrary, the big bang and evolution side of the conflict has attached itself to a staunch atheism: it is not even the realization of pure science any more today as it once was. Any deviation from atheism is considered by those belonging to this opinion to be a rebellion against science and reason.