Looking the Right Way through the Telescope

Abstract

How should we as Christians rightly view our gift of life from God if we confess that we truly believe ourselves to be the products of an amazing and indeed somewhat unexplainable and unfathomable creation? This essay makes the audacious suggestion that our intellectual process of scientific and philosophical discourse change its very framework by altering the starting point for how it comprehends all existence. Rather than attempting to determine truth and our ontological reality from the standpoint of science, we must begin with the assumption that God is indeed very real, and that all matters of earthly design and scientific understanding should be ultimately explored via a position of faithful inquiry. As such, our faith can be assured by the theophysical causality of a divine creating God who is unmoved by any scientific proof of human definition because he is the All-Determining Reality (Pannenberg’s term) who becomes accessible to us by acting in our present human world as he integrates his loving power and salvation into our reality.