HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 17, 2025 – All science is theory, so the phrase “the science is settled” is an oxymoron. God gave us science as a tool to make sense of the natural (not the supernatural) realm, but he never meant for us to treat it as a religion and to worship it as infallible. Science by very definition is perpetually in motion, perpetually flawed, and perpetually being upended: Settling something with those characteristics is impossible.

Still, the belief in science has for many people replaced belief in God. In scripture, God talks about those who’ve not only rejected him but have replaced him with “broken cisterns that can hold no water”. He was including science-believers in this group.

The number of people who are embracing broken cisterns in the form of science is growing larger by the day. So are their claims. One claim that recently caught my eye is that there are an estimated 10 quintillion insects in the world, and of these, an estimated 80% have yet to be identified. These kinds of broad, sweeping, and frankly quite silly pronouncements highlight the inherently flawed and profoundly unsettled nature of science. Yes, science is a tool, but tools that are not suited to the task at hand are pretty much useless.

Have you ever tried eating soup with a screwdriver? Of course not. That would be silly. So is saying there are 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 insects on Earth. Verging on criminal is expecting us not only to believe this nonsense but being forced to regurgitate it as gospel truth on a science quiz or be failed.

So, while God gave us science as a tool, people who blindly place their faith in science (i.e., Trust the Science™) have themselves become tools – useful tools of Satan. The rebranding of scientific inquiry from being a cautious, inconclusive explainer of the natural realm to being a dogmatic writ-in-stone fact (that you dare not question) has the devil’s pawprints all over it. As we well know, “those who believe in nothing will fall for anything”, and science dogmatists have fallen for the devil’s lies in the form of “the science is settled” and similar creeds. Even worse, they’re constantly evangelizing and infiltrating all aspects of human society so that to be (as I am here) an “unbeliever in science” (that is, one who questions scientific dogmatic claims) is akin to being branded a witch or a heretic in the Middle Ages: A burning stake is being prepared for me as we speak.

I am grateful to God for his gift of science as a tool to help explain nature. However, I don’t worship or “believe in” science. I don’t unquestioningly Trust the Science™. To me, scientific theories are just that – theories. They’re not truths and they’re not settled, and by very definition they can never be. They can only ever be flawed and questionable, as God intended them. Still, a flawed and questionable work-in-progress explanation is better than no explanation at all.

As a born-again believer, I don’t reject science; I reject the dogma around it.