The question of what is the prime reality: or to put it simply--does God exist has been answered by many people. But what about you?  Can reason and faith go together?  Yes, they can. Do you know that everyone has a worldview whether they thought about it in these terms or not.  Ancient and modern cultures developed around the answer to this questions.  

People have always asked this question: "What is the thing from which everything comes from?"  

My family and I are watching a wonderful video from Dr. Stephen C. Meyer that helps wrestle with the different kinds of reasoning in the scientific community, both past and present, and how different worldviews have affected the scientific community's presentation of observation and facts.

We found out that looking at the evidence of nature and experience we find that different worldviews will affect the end evaluation. Science is not just fact and logic, it is also the science of reason and intellect.   Do you reason from the viewpoint of classical theism, deism, pantheism, or naturalism/materialism? And from what viewpoint are the scientists you are listening to examining the evidence before them?  We know that Richard Dawkins is an atheist, yet when pressed in the movie, "Expelled", he said that he too believed in intelligent design, but his faith compelled him to believe that aliens seeded our earth and it was from their intelligent design that the rest of us sprang forth.  His world view colors everything he observes as scientific fact because evolution comes from the worldview of naturalism, sometimes called materialism.

We need to examine the new scientific evidence coming forth in the last decade to understand why Christians believe what we do about God and the universe.  There are too many scientific facts and effects that could be explained in a number of different ways and we need to evaluate each one of those hypothesis to see which one best explains the evidence.  We have enjoyed the presentation of the video we are watching by Dr. Meyer.  If you are interest in hearing his debates you can go to these media channel.  I suggest you buy his book, we are going to read it.  And if you would like to review the notes we have been taking go to this webpage:  Faith&Reason 

 http://www.stephencmeyer.org/media.php

Who is Dr. Stephen C. Meyer?

Dr. Stephen C. Meyer is director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and a founder both of the intelligent design movement and of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, intelligent design’s primary intellectual and scientific headquarters. Dr. Meyer is a Cambridge University-trained philosopher of science, the author of peer-reviewed publications in technical, scientific, philosophical and other books and journals. His signal contribution to ID theory is given most fully in Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, published by HarperOne in June 2009. For more on the book, and more about Dr. Meyer's views on intelligent design visit his website at www.signatureinthecell.com.

Meyer earned his Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University for a dissertation on the history of origin of life biology and the methodology of the historical sciences. Previously he worked as a geophysicist with the Atlantic Richfield Company after earning his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Geology.

Dr. Meyer has recently co-written or edited two books: Darwinism, Design, and Public Education with Michigan State University Press and Science and Evidence of Design in the Universe (Ignatius 2000).

He has also authored numerous technical articles as well as editorials in magazines and newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Houston Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, First Things and National Review.