Can Science Explain Everything?

There are many voices in our culture telling us (and more importantly, telling our children) that science and faith are incompatible. Grappling with this narrative can be incredibly difficult for a young mind since science is the study of the natural world and things that can be touched, observed, and measured.

As a Christian, I believe that science is a gift from God. The simple fact that humans have the ability and the desire to learn, ask questions, understand, to perform tests, calculations, and observations, and apply reason, logic, and insight to the world around them is, of itself, proof that science and faith are not only compatible, but inseparable.

Through science, we’ve discovered the wonders of DNA, observed distant galaxies, and developed life-saving medicines. But as Oxford professor John Lennox highlights in his book “Can Science Explain Everything?”, the tools of science are unable to answer life’s biggest questions.

Science can tell us how the world works — how blood flows, how the planets move, how seeds grow. Yet it cannot fully answer why we exist, why we long for purpose, or why love and justice matter. Those questions stretch beyond the reach of microscopes and telescopes.

Lennox reminds us that this is not a failure of science, but a reminder that it was never designed to explain everything. Just as a cookbook tells you how to bake bread but not why you should, science explains processes but not meaning. For that, we need God’s Word.

In short, faith and science are not enemies. Many of the greatest scientists —such as Newton, Faraday, and Kepler were passionate believers who saw their work as uncovering the order that God had woven into creation. Lennox demonstrates that Christianity offers not only an intellectual foundation for science but also deeper insights into truth, morality, and eternal hope.