Interessante quote, over 'God of the gaps' en wat de bijbel daarover zegt:
Hiermee zal denk ik iedereen het eens zijn. Maar vervolgens:[T]wentieth-century and twenty-first-century science
seems to sustain itself without the help of explicit theistic underpinnings. In
fact, many consider God to be merely the “God of the gaps,” the God whom
people invoke only to account for gaps in modern scientific explanation. As
science advances and more gaps become subject to explanation, the role of
God diminishes. The natural drives out the need for the supernatural.
En tenslotte het belangrijkste stuk m.i.:The situation looks different if we refuse to confine God to “the gaps.”
According to the Bible, he is involved in those areas where science does best,
namely areas involving regular and predictable events, repeating patterns, and
sometimes exact mathematical descriptions. In Genesis 8:22 God promises,
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and
winter, day and night, shall not cease.
This general promise concerning earthly regularities is supplemented by
many particular examples:
You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the beasts of the forest creep about (Ps. 104:20).
You cause the grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for man to cultivate,
that he may bring forth food from the earth (Ps. 104:14).
He sends out his command to the earth;
his word runs swiftly.
He gives snow like wool;
he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs;
who can stand before his cold?
He sends out his word, and melts them;
he makes his wind blow and the waters flow (Ps. 147:15-18).
Bron: Poythress, V.S. (2003) Why Scientists Must Believe in God, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 46/1: 111-123.The regularities that scientists describe are the regularities of God’s own
commitments and actions. By his word to Noah, he commits himself to govern
the seasons. By his word he governs snow, frost, and hail. Scientists
describe the regularities in God’s word governing the world. So-called natural
law is really the law of God or word of God, imperfectly and approximately
described by human investigators.