Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt - Science as Religion

Nuggets from “An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith” by Dave Hunt – Science as Religion –

Humanists also have their Babel-like do-it-yourself-kit religion. They call it science. It, too, reflects man’s continued rebellion. Modern man hopes to conquer the atom, space, and all disease, and thus become immortal master of the universe. The materialist’s “heaven” is a peaceful cosmos populated by highly evolved space-traveling civilizations that have restored paradise through super-technology,

Rank materialism leaves the soul empty, but adding a touch of religion to science seems to fill the void while keeping faith “rational.” There is no more deadly delusion than a scientific religion. It is the delusion of Babel all over again, with advancing knowledge building the steps that both lead man to “heaven” and open him to the very powers of God.

One of Christian psychology’s major appeals to evangelicals is its false claim to being scientific. It fails, however, the litmus test of Exodus:20:24-26 [24] An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. [25] And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. [26] Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
See All.... Its altars are built of the cut and polished stones of human wisdom, its rituals are not found in Scripture, and self rather than God is the ruler. Moreover, on its altars burn the strange fires (Leviticus:10:1And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
See All...; Numbers:3:4And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
See All...) of humanistic theories unacceptable to man’s Creator.

Religious science is a major element in the environmental movement, where the earth is increasingly viewed as sacred. Eco-theology, says a Georgetown University professor, “starts with the premise that the Universe is God.”

“If we must worship a power greater than ourselves,” was Carl Sagan’s advice at the height of his popularity, “does it not make sense to revere the Sun and stars?” No, it does not make sense for personal beings to revere impersonal things. They ought rather to worship their Creator. To draw closer to and thus better observe and worship the heavenly bodies was a major purpose of the Tower of Babel. Worshiping “Mother Earth” is the same folly and rebellion against the true God.

The environmental movement, too, is a humanistic attempt to restore the lost paradise of Eden without repenting of rebellion against the Creator. Concern for “endangered species” by those who believe in “natural selection/survival of the fittest” is an obvious contradiction. Only those stubbornly determined to remain atheists could persist in defending evolution, which works by wiping out the weaker species, and at the same time express concern for endangered species, a concern that evolution itself rejects.