What if the universe has a designer who never walked away from His creation? In this episode of Faith and Science, host Kaysie Vokurka and Dr. John Ashton explore chapter 13 of The Big Argument: Does God Exist?, “Who Is God and What Is He Like?” by Stephen Thompson. They look at how the Bible’s picture of a Creator both above and involved in the world supports a biblical worldview, and at the evidence for God found in the laws of nature and in eyewitness accounts of miracles.
Dr. John Ashton is the author of The Big Argument and a scientist who examines the origins debate through evidence. Many people assume that science demands a purely naturalistic explanation, and that a God who cannot be put in a lab experiment is not worth taking seriously. Dr. Ashton unpacks the difference between God’s transcendence and immanence and explains why the demand to test God experimentally confuses science with scientism, given the large body of reported supernatural events. He concludes that the origin of the universe and its laws, together with a mind able to understand them, points to a personal Creator who is a “Who,” not a “what.”
In this episode, you will hear: • Why the Bible’s Creator is entirely outside the universe, unlike the snake, turtle, or Greek gods of other religions, yet still seeks a relationship with us • The “scratching versus knocking at the door” illustration: a “what” versus a “who” • How miracles witnessed by a whole nation, such as the Red Sea crossing and the stones piled up after the Jordan crossing, were preserved as memorials • Why Stephen Hawking’s appeal to gravity leaves a question unanswered: who made gravity, and where do the laws of nature come from?
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