Abstract
The Biblical worldview uniquely asserts the reality of a personal deity who is creator ex-nihilo of all that exists. The Biblical cosmos is an open system because there is communication between the created cosmos and its creator. The secular and pagan cosmoses are closed systems because there is nothing outside of the cosmos with which to communicate. The resources within the closed system are not sufficient to raise up Western science. Whether “its”, “bits”, or something else is more fundamental will be answered depending on which worldview one believes. How one’s worldview imagines information, causes, and physical objects will determine how one can resolve current doubts about science. Western science developed uniquely under the Biblical worldview because God provided a rationality to the cosmos which no other worldview did. Western science began with the union in the Middle Ages of the Greek talent for abstract analysis with the Hebrew focus on the particular, personal, space, and time. The critiques of Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, and then relativity and quantum physics, seriously undermined the usefulness of the Newtonian view of the cosmos and causality in terms of which much of science was understood, causing a crisis in the understanding of causality. Contemporary science has no secure theory of causality which has led to a questioning of science itself. And contemporary physics has steadily moved toward treating the smallest of entities as mathematical entities rather than as objects in the normal sense. The secular abandonment of God as the rational source of existence was fatal to the success of modern science to account for natural law. Only the restoration of the Biblical notion of God as the ultimate cause of existence, and thus creator of natural law, can restore the integrity of the natural sciences.
Fernen Earle Fox