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>Why are you acting like science and the church are in conflict?
Because the church has a history of rejecting scientific explanations in favor for religious explanations, like when Galileo was arrested for his research.
We don't live in a random universe, there are laws that govern reality, but I'm suspicious of the idea that there must be a central authority, God (especially the Christian one), who created and planned it all just because those rules are there. What if it's patterns naturally arise without there being any God involved? What if reality just falls into place the same way a free market does? I'm not a libertarian but you reminded me of something I saw Hayek say somewhere: "To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account.". He obviously said this in reference to free markets vs centralized planning and socialism but I don't see why the same idea can be applied to reality. Maybe, just as predictable patterns naturally arise in free markets which can be calculated, so too do patterns arise in other vast systems made up of countless variables that interact with one another, from which rules can be derived. Just as I don't think god himself is the invisible hand directing every economic actor so that they form patterns, I also don't think there's a God directing each particle in existence so that they also form patterns or systems.
As for Christians who study and contribute to science, I wonder what they think about Christianity opinion on the age of the Earth vs science's opinion. If their explanations are widely accepted then clearly they're credible, but that doesn't mean God is real.
