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S c i e n t i s t s o f F a i t h

A person who sees a sown cornfield does not doubt the
existence of a farmer who cultivated the corn. Prof.Dale
Swartzendruber says that there is a great purpose and plan in
the universe, and denying the existence of a Creator, who
devised this purpose and plan, would be far more nonsensical
than denying the existence of the farmer in the above example.

magnificent field of yellow, waving grain and at the same time to deny
the existence of the farmer in the farmhouse by the roadside. 133

The area of re s e a rch pursued by Dembski, one of the leading
mathematical scientists of our day, covers a wide range of disciplines,
f rom philosophy to theology. Dembski
u n d e r s c o res that science is an attempt to
understand the world, and scientists are
but discoverers in this pursuit. He
presents some of his views in this way:

The world is God's creation, and
scientists in understanding the world are
simply retracing God's thoughts.
Scientists are not creators but
d i s c o v e rers… The important thing
about the act of creation is that it
reveals the cre a t o r. The act of
creation always bears the signature
of the creator. 134
William Dembski

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