What about the Supernatural?

Many scientists believe so strongly in the power of science to determine all reality that for anything to exist outside nature is, for them, out of the question. Yet we have the inevitability of the supernatural staring us right in the face. We can conceive of but two possible concepts to account for origins, and both are supernatural. Either something is self-existent, or existence somehow occurred spontaneously from nothing. We do not think anyone seriously proposes that existence came into being out of nothing, therefore we will give that concept no more consideration. By purely natural standards, existence itself is impossible because any explanation for it is beyond comprehension. Yet somehow we are here, and things exist. Even though existence defies nature, science, and rational explanation, scientists steeped in naturalism find any admission of the supernatural unacceptable, so they simply ignore the question of ultimate origins. They accept the existence of matter without asking where it came from and divert attention to evolution to explain how matter became living creatures.

It is refreshing to find some highly respected scientists take issue with colleagues who make such exaggerated claims. One of the founding and guiding pioneers of NASA, Dr. Robert Jastrow wrote, “Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by the nature of their profession to seek explanations for the origin of life that lie within the boundaries of natural law.” The ruling elite of science, education, and media have largely smothered such healthy breaths of open-minded honesty. They have usurped the name of science to close the doors against all possibility of the supernatural.