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Editor’s note: This commentary originally appeared in Covalence in October 2019. We thought this topic was well worth exploring again as a reminder of why getting it right about faith and science is so important.

From time to time, someone will say something like “One of these days, science will be able to explain everything and we won’t need religion.”

This idea badly misunderstands both science and religion. Let’s examine what this idea gets wrong about science and about religion. Then we can look at a common practice that gets things wrong about God.

Getting it wrong about science

It is certainly true that scientific research continues to expand our knowledge and understanding of the universe. With the rapid increase in knowledge in the past few centuries, some people assume that it won’t be long until we have all the significant problems solved. However, scientists keep telling us otherwise.

You don’t have to take my word for it (and those who make a statement like the one we are considering would not be likely to take my word for it).

Consider this description of the progress of science by one of the top physicists of the 20th century:

Robert Oppenheimer (in Science and the Common Understanding) has likened all of science to

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Shortly before his death, Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most brilliant minds in all science and mathematics, declared: “I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”  (World of Mathematics, Vol. I, p. 271.) 

Here this great scientist who developed calculus, a theory of gravity and laws of motion, describes all his discoveries as smooth pebbles or pretty shells compared to all that remained undiscovered and unknown.

A Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that I often use to illustrate this idea shows six-year-old Calvin and his best friend a tiger named Hobbes digging for treasure. As Calvin finds himself deeper and deeper in a pit, Calvin tells Hobbs that he found disgusting grubs and even a tree root. He exclaims “There’s treasure everywhere!”

I believe, with Calvin, that truly there is treasure everywhere. The question is whether we will have eyes, minds and hearts open to experience it.

The following prayer from the Jewish prayerbook, Gates of Prayer, expresses this powerfully:

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