Finding God in science

One subject where I feel faith other than religion class is science. It’s amazing learning about Earth and how God created all of these different places and parts. This class brings up a lot of questions about God and evolution.

The more I learn about our universe, the more I’m amazed at how magically everything works. In one grain of sand, there are a billion billion atoms. Day after day, my heart beats more than 70 times a minute — that’s more than 100,000 times a day. Since I was born, the earth has spun completely around on its axis 119,000 times at a speed of about 225 miles per hour, but I haven’t fallen off yet.

Science can explain what happens. Gravity keeps us on the Earth. My heart keeps beating because it’s a muscle pumping blood through my body. But science can’t explain why it keeps happening. There’s no real reason why these things work the way they do. Science tries to explain so many things that happen in nature; but the reality is, without faith, we can’t really fathom how our world works.

Some people try to use science to prove there isn’t a God. They try to apply logic to all the things that happen in nature. I believe in science, but I also believe that the more we understand science, the more we understand God. We’ll never get all the answers from science. Some wonders of our universe are beyond man’s ability to define in scientific terms.

My faith in God is strengthened by how much more I’m learning in science each day. I’m learning that there’s a lot out there in the universe, and God created all of it. There is so much to wonder at, and science is helping me discover just how awesome this Earth is.

This is a vast and incomprehensible universe. The more science I learn, the more I realize that the only explanation for this wondrous world we live in is faith in a higher power — God.