Will Science ever find God?

“Science and God are not enemies. But science is too young to understand.”- Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

There was a time when lightning hit the earth as Zeus’s punishment and a time when tsunamis and sea storms were caused by the rage mode of Poseidon. There was a time when Isis (Sky god) and Geb (Earth god) in the Egyptian land were lovers who could never be united. As time went by these notions and ideas were dissolved and vanished from their designations due to the development of a more profound, logical, and rational way of thinking which we now call science. As time progressed, science uncovered the secrets of nature which were unknown to mankind before, which mankind earlier attributed to an entity known as god, and henceforth buried these gods. But amongst all this, there is still a notion of a transcendent God, who has survived and stood the test of time till the 21st century. A shapeless, formless, conscious, super-intelligent being who created and sustains this whole universe. But as time progresses, will science eventually bury this God as well? Or to put the question in another way: Will science ever find this God? , and put an end to one of the most debated questions of this century: Is there a God?

Before we jump deeper into this matter, we have to first scrutinize science. Is science complete enough to find God? It is definitely true that science can explain almost everything that happens around is in a very reasonable and logical way. The falling of an object, the color of the sky, even the tiniest bits of matter such as the molecules and atom. But being judgmental on this idea, is science capable of explaining everything? See, the scientific method of concluding a data invokes making and observation from an experiment or event and then inferring a conclusion. That’s how science works. But if we look deeper we see that Science is bound to this space, time, and matter continuum. Its called a continuum because all these 3 entities are dependent upon each other. It’s limited to this physical dimension only. Seen or unseen, science fails to explain anything further beyond that. Now the transcendent God in the bible is not bound by this continuum. If God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1), this God will be outside the influence of this continuum, a superset of the universe. Is it surprising that after all these developments, yet we can't understand how consciousness works. As spiritualist and healer, Deepak Chopra mentions, science is the conclusion made by the observer about an event. But science does not look into the working of the observer. The observer here is consciousness. Understanding consciousness is out of the scope of science. As mentioned earlier, we being restricted to this space, time, matter continuum, we lack the physical equipment to understand a God who isn’t influenced by this continuum aka matter, space and time.

John Lennox, professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, illustrates an example in this matter. Henry Ford invented the combustion engine. Even decades of studying a combustion engine by an engineer will never lead him to its inventor. Today’s engines, even after years of research and improvement, still work on the basic idea of Ford. The imprints of Ford’s basic idea is all over the engine, yet studying the engine will never lead us to find Henry Ford.

The same analogy can be applied to science. Decades of studying science can never lead us to the creator of science. But his imprints are all over his creation. As Romans 1:20 says, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made”.

Science, though points out to a creator, will never find the creator as it’s not the direction that leads us to him.

So the simple answer is — No. Science will not find God. Nor can science prove the existence of God. Reason? Science isn’t capable of doing so. The subject on its own is incomplete. Definitely, it will explain the creation. But it will not find the creator through its objective approach. Finding God requires a whole new method of connecting with his consciousness. This is where spirituality comes in. We will dig deeper into that in the upcoming posts.