The role of History and Science on the Resurrection - Reading Acts with David Gooding

 

It would be as idle to conjecture what the mechanics and physics of it could be, as it would be unscientific to claim that ‘science’ declares the whole thing to be impossible. 

True science seeks to understand and describe the normal. It is for history to tell us whether something abnormal, that science cannot yet explain, has in fact happened. Science is not omniscient (it cannot even explain all it can observe); it cannot rule out in advance such a possibility. 

If history has given overwhelming evidence that in the resurrection of Christ the great redeeming and re-creating power of God has broken into the regularities of our fallen world, true science will adjust its worldview to allow for it.

~ David Gooding, True to the Faith (Myrtlefield), p.35