Today, there are only a few scientist or physicist who will admit that the world/universe was created and maintained by a “God”. They are empiricist, one who must observe or experience something before they can believe that it exists.
Blaise Pascal, Albert Einstein, and Isaac Newton are each well known for their great scientific and mathematical achievements. And although they were scientist and mathematicians, they each had an understanding that there is a higher power, and higher intelligence that brought forth the universe. Their scientific studies and mathematical equations revealed the vastness, interdependence, and interconnectivity of the universe. They concluded that the universe is the product of a superior or divine intelligence and not some haphazard event as Darwinians want to believe.
Albert Einstein was not religious nor spiritual, he thought the Bible and other spiritual writings are non-sensical. He said, “the Bible is a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless childish.” Faith or belief is usually an anathema to a person of science. However, Einstein’s view was that “Science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.” Isaac Newton was both a scientist and a believer in God. In the 1690s he wrote several religious tracts dealing with the literal and symbolic interpretation of the Bible. He expressed his view of God in several of his writings. Newtown stated, “Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the Divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion, as they have about the sun”.
In reference to the “Creator”, he proclaims “This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over, all. The Supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect . . . and from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a living, intelligent, and powerful Being.
Pascal Blaise was active and prominent in the religious circles of his day. He was a proponent of Jansenism, a controversial religious movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that arose out of the theological problem of reconciling divine grace and human freedom. The point being made here is that science belongs to religion or spirituality as much as religion or spirituality belongs to science. Science is the study and understanding of nature. God created nature; therefore, nature and science must be connected. There is a science to spirituality and nature. Understanding the science of both the material world and the spiritual realm will move us further towards understanding ourselves, the universe we live in, and our purpose, to reunite with the Creator.
