Religious people of Reddit: How do you explain science to yourself?

Personally, this question is something I have wrestled with and will probably wrestle with for the rest of my physical life.

I grew up going to a fairly typical church that rejected evolution as anti-doctrine and basically anti-Christian. Of course, I followed that doctrine, but college taught me differently. Being a Biology major (currently I teach it), I found myself at an impasse. I still believed in Christianity as it was my very foundation, but all my professors and most of the scientific data argued for evolution. I finally realized that God, in His infinite wisdom, created life to be flexible and to adapt... to evolve. Would an engineer not account for heat expansion and design his creation to flex? I also came to the conclusion that Genesis 1 is an account written to the Israelites to introduce them to a Creator God... not a textbook. I believe the days of creation represent "categories" of life (http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/genint.html). Whereas, I believe that God created everything, I also argue that God created with potential. The Bible is full of stories where God sees potential, a theoretical endpoint, that is illogical but it comes to pass. I believe God created the earth with the potential to become what it is. Genesis 2, however, depicts the moment when God conferred his "image" upon mankind setting them apart. I think this image is much more a metaphysical ability to think and reason (like is seen on this thread); than a physical body shaped like a spiritual being's. So in conclusion, I believe in both evolution and God... God and science. I see evolution as an awesome tool given from God to the natural world to encourage diversity and be able to adapt to a changing environment. I see science as a means to discover a little more of the infinite the wisdom of the Creator.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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