Religion and Natural Science

• Big Bang


  The scientific explanation of the origin of the universe

  • physcial account is in harmony with the metaphysical understanding of the origin of the universe
• Evolution


  The scientific theory that explains the development of life on the planet

  • Evolution of life on the planet is God’s design which the laws are operative
  • Laws of chance determine the many possible ways in God’s design is fulfilled

  *difference between permitted and caused by God
• Soul

  The soul is created by God

  • Reconciliation of evolution and classical theism
  • God endowed the highest life-forms on the planet, homo-sapiens, with a soul
• Soul is created by God

  An afterlife is a possibility