User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-1777104-20100706163934

McG, God did not create pizza. Man created pizza. God created man with the intelligence to invent all kinds of food combinations. If we 'study' a pizza, it is to discover how to make a better one. Mostly, though, we just eat a pizza.

Seriously, though, back to your main point. Science (man's search for knowledge) cannot "explain" God. In fact, God makes it plain in His word that we cannot explain God. He just IS -- as he told Moses, "I AM." In another place God told us "My ways are past finding out." But we CAN "know" God, even though we can't understand Him.

Can "science" help us understand the Bible? Most certainly. We can study nature to understand the parables of Christ. We can study history to understand the way things work together to bring about the world in which we live. We can study people, to understand how the mind of man works (an inexact science to say the least). All these quests for knowledge help us to "understand" the world in which the Bible was written.

But one thing "science" cannot explain is the miraculous work of God when He chooses to "break the rules" (that is, overrule) over the principles that normally hold sway. That is beyond "science" as we define it. When God overrules, as is His prerogative, he can literally do the impossible. And that includes creating the world in the way HE said he did. Not a "big bang, but by direct command, and a gentle touch as a potter molding clay. giving life where dead matter once lay -- out of the ocean floor, from the muddy shore -- life of all kinds in a matter of days. He's God, and that's how He said He did it.  Why can't we just accept that?

The short answer is "unbelief," not disbelief. We are not "suspending disbelief" when we trust God, we are abolishing "unbelief." We are trusting Him, not rejecting him. And that takes "faith" (same words in the Greek language of the New Testament). Let us embrace the gift of faith, and thereby enjoy fellowship with the Creator.