Science: Is it a religion?

“Science has itself become a kind of religion.” –Carl Sagan

science: explanation of phenomena using experimentation and theory
religion: belief in and reverence of a supernatural creator

There are common themes in the definition of each: science is theoretical and religion is belief. A theory requires belief. A belief in a set of principles. Therefore, science IS a religion. However, religion is not a science. Science attempts to explain what was created. Religion recognizes the explanation... God.

Both science and religion are based on "belief". Belief requires faith in ultimate truth. Both science and religion are faith-based and are abstract. Neither can ever be proved. Only in eternity will the truth be revealed. Christians call that "hope". Science has only deterministic outcomes for eternity. In science there is no eternal hope!

While Sagan is right that "science" has become a "religion" he is simply identifying why gullible people accept science with only prima facie examination. Conversely, religion IS NOT a science. Religion admits to being faith-based. Science fails to be honest in that respect! However, the eternal creator paradigm WILL eventually come to fruition and we will then be enlightened! Jesus is God and God is the Creator!

Gen 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." What part of this is unclear to those who believe in the god "Chance" as the creator? God said that HE CREATED the universe! Is God a liar? If so, then why have faith in Him?

Deuteronomy 32:4 "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."

What God says must be believed. He does not and cannot sin. Everything God says IS TRUTH. You can't pick and choose! Scripture is not multiple choice!

1 John 5:10 "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son."

If you don't believe what God says on any subject, you're calling him "liar" and you are not a witness to his deity... you're not a true Christian!

People say "You're a scientist! How can you believe in the creation?". I believe in the creation for two reasons 1) God says that he created the earth and the universe and God is not a liar and 2) because I'm an engineer I know that scientific theory fails to explain the creation. Science says "It just happened from nothing!" Religion credits a creator... God! Entropy (science) and probability (science) reinforces what religion teaches. Life and material were created. The odds of it happening by chance are nil and entropy tells us that systems always go toward disorder, not order. What do scientists Not understand about science?

As a bonus as a scientist who believes in God, I have hope! Without hope life is fatally morbid. Who was at the creation? God! Jesus is God manifested in the flesh. John 1 tells us that Jesus was at the creation! "Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life!"

Titus 2:13 "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;"