Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

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I also really enjoyed the discussion about light and how the Scriptural and scientific truths align on this. Notice that the whole section consists of the direct words of Jesus. If you’re reading a “red letter” Bible, all of these words are in red.

However, when it comes to believing that God is God, and that the Bible is holy and true, many people struggle. For all of those who yammer that "the science is settled" on any subject in science - he offers Einstein who argued that the point of science is that it is always testing existing knowledge. It is never settled. That is the point. As a thermal engineer, I rely on the laws of thermodynamics to make nearly all of my analyses and designs. I use them to put bread on the table. I appreciate their beauty and revel in their elegance.

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They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you too want to become his disciples?" And they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know [we are the theological doctors here, the experts] that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from." (John 9:26-29 RSV) But faith is not something we can see. There is no visual evidence. The official definition of faith is a "firm belief in something of which there is no proof." However, nothing could be further from the truth! According to God’s Word, believers have been “called out of darkness into God’s marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9). Believers have the great privilege and responsibility to “walk in the light, as He is in the light...” (1 John 1:7). As a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and Christian, I have a worldview broad enough to accommodate both the scientific method and the Bible . . . reason and faith . . . the universe and God. (c)

Dr. Guillen makes it clear that every worldview requires faith in unprovable assumptions. Logic, mathematics, the scientific method - none of these can work without axioms. He draws extensively on Godel's incompleteness theorems, but the basic idea has been well understood by philosophers and theologians for centuries. Now he has grown spiritually. He still regards Jesus as a man, but he sees him as God's man, a gifted man, a man with insight and understanding, a great man. All the resistance to accepting this remarkable miracle has deepened his insight and understanding. Then the man's parents become involved.This is true on many levels of life. Albert Einstein did not come to the knowledge of relativity by performing a series of experiments which ultimately convinced him that relativity was true. He gradually saw the idea of relativity, and, convinced in his own mind that this was the secret of the physical universe, he performed experiments that he might demonstrate it to others. This is the way of truth. Believing is seeing. If you think about it, we believe without seeing every day. We listen to the news on the radio or television and believe what they say is true. Even though we may see the broadcast, we did not actually witness the events. We listen to the gossip of others and believe their words to be fact. A defect on the sense organs like those due to agnosia and aphasia can lead to someone obtaining the wrong information since it is possible to speak in a way while the body language shows another thing. Senses also rely upon the environment to be able to function. A person who has never been exposed to the light will never know colours if they are exposed to them at a later stage in their lives. In their normal functioning, senses also have limitations in the way they obtain information. The human eye, for example, can only resolve up to 0. mm which means that points or lines that are less than 0. 1mm apart will be seen as a continuous line, which is false. The senses, no matter how true the information they get is, also depend entirely on the brain’s ability to evaluate the electrical impulses it gets from sense sensations which could be responses to chemical reactions in the taste buds and hair cells of the nose, frequency of light waves and difference in pressure of air in the eyes and ears respectively, or pressure and temperature in the skin.