The  natural sciences are interested in what is in the created order and how these things work.  They study the physical, chemical and biological properties, processes and relationships of matter in all creation. In several applied sciences that range from engineering to medicine, you learn the implications of the principles of the natural sciences for our lives as created human beings in the world.

How you study the natural sciences depends on your fundamental assumptions about the natural order - its origin, purpose, present and destiny. Christians begin their studies of the natural sciences from the primary assumptions of God and His self-disclosure to all humanity. Biblical revelation and records provide us with dependable starting  points. They explain origins, how we were made as human beings, why we are how we are, and the future of all creation. We start intellectual activities in the  natural sciences with the belief that the world  is a product of God’s purposeful creation.

Bible-believing Christians don’t fall into the naturalistic error of thinking that only what is knowable by human senses is all there is to know. Christians are aware that the methods of natural sciences are incapable of handlingnonmaterial dimensions of  reality. This limitation is evidence of the provisional status of what we currently know in all disciplines. This is what your natural science lecturers should be saying in the classroom about the limits of science. Instead, most of them cling to the natural world. They dare not venture outside the boundaries of what they currently understand for the fear of encountering the God they refuse to acknowledge.

In your studies of basic and applied natural sciences, beware of theories and so-called evidence which are brazenly presented in stark contradiction to biblical truths.When you start faithfully from Christian primary assumptions, your intellectual efforts to understand and manipulate the natural order fit properly into God’s purposes and our place as human beings in the created order.