Is there a conflict between science and the belief in God?
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Every year I am asked by my students as to what I believe when it comes to God and science.  Am I Creationist? Do I accept the Theory of Evolution? Do I believe God made the Earth? Every year the questions come and I simple tell them I can not promote my faith in class, I am here only to teach them about science.  Last year a student kept questioning me, so I told him I would tell him, but after school.  Once I told him he suggested I make a web page about what I told him - so here it is.   You may accept this or not - I really do not care - because I believe- Faith goes beyond reason, and science is reason.   Science has actually strengthened my faith and made me more in awe of God's greatness.  I believe that both the Bible and science do not conflict.  That God in his infinite intelligence and wisdom did make the world in seven days, but I also believe that our universe was created 13+ billion years ago.  How?  Well, according to quantum's mechanics the closer you are to the center of the universe the slower time is, and the further away from the center of the universe the faster time is, and scientist say that the universe is expanding faster and faster, so then time is growing faster and faster - so time is relative.  A God day could now be billions of years. Did God create us - Yes I believe he did?  This universe is so complex -  millionths of an increase in our CO2  gases and we have global warming. Take our Earth, life exists here because of thousands of interwoven aspects of environment. Take one aspect away and others are effected. The complexity of it SCREAMS designer. Did the earth evolve over billions of years from the remnant parts of a super nova star? Yes I believe this.   How can I believe both? Because belief in  God's word is based on faith. Belief in science is seeing God's designer fingerprints. God does not lie in either way, if the evidence of God's creation and God's Word seems not to jive - then it is our puny little minds that have not fingered out the connection between the two.   Do we try and force one to fit the other - I believe a big NO is in order.   When we try so very hard to fit our current knowledge of science to God's word - we get fundamentalist doctrine, and when we try to ignore God's word we get agnostic science like  bioethics.  Why can we not just accept God's evidence, and God's Word as both being right and that we just don't have the right knowledge to see the connections. Is having Faith in both God and science wrong? I believe they are the same coin, but from different perspectives.