Louisville Process Theology Network

Does Science Support Belief in God?

”For most people who have studied science in high school and college, this question seems silly.

Obviously, science as they studied it does not support belief in God.

It would be a total violation of the rules of contemporary science……

But if we are asking a slightly different question,

the question of whether the findings of science, that is, our contemporary scientific knowledge,

lend support to belief in God, the question is not silly……..

The new overarching evolutionary view accepted by science introduced a new issue.

If human beings are a part of the nature studied by science,

then does not nature include thought and purpose?

A few scientists have answered this affirmatively……..

From the perspective of process thought, this is where science has gone wrong

and generated intolerable paradoxes…….

If scientists as a group redefined science to be the study of both the objective and subjective worlds and their interactions,

would that change the matter of the support of belief in God?.......

it has been thought that God could overrule natural law and intervene at any time and in any way.

Scientists see no evidence that this has ever happened

and their whole sensibility would be violated if some example of such intervention were demonstrated.

Process theism shares their sensibility.

God is an essential factor in the way nature functions, not an external intervener in this process.”

Excerpts of “Does Science Support Belief in God” by John B. Cobb at openhorizons.org.