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"The Debate Over Life's Ultimate Question: Does God Exist?"
Thank you so much for all your publications. They are full of truth and I feel so strengthened in my faith in God. I was pleased to receive your recent issue of The Good News. The article on "Does God Exist?" is so timely, covering the atheist debates that the Church needs to be informed about.
-K.R., Melksham, England
I had never seen your magazine before, but I recently read the article "The Debate Over Life's Ultimate Question: Does God Exist?" It was a thoughtful, if one-sided, article. For Christianity to survive in an increasingly "militant, atheistic" world, it must embrace science and the evidence science presents for the origin of the universe. Christians should not be afraid of science, but rather recognize that change and the evolution of ideas is a fundamental part of being human.
If God indeed placed us on this planet, He also gave us the intelligence to discover and study our universe. While I believe that religion has a place in the world, so does science, and the two don't have to be at odds. Science cannot explain why we are here, but religion can. Religion does not need to explain how we are here. Science can do that.
-V.B., Boise, Idaho
The Bible has no disagreement with true science. God is its author. The term science essentially means knowledge. The prophet Daniel had understanding of science (Daniel 1:4, King James Version). Grasping the sense of the passage, the New King James translators used the word "knowledge" instead. Later the apostle Paul spoke of "oppositions of science falsely so called" (1 Timothy 6:20, KJV). Again the NKJV used the phrase "what is falsely called knowledge." Unproven evolutionary theories are neither true science nor true knowledge.
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