The coronavirus virus has done strange things to people's view of science. People have disregarded it and depended upon it all at once. Not two groups of people, one disregarding, the other depending, but a kind of overlapping internal confusion.
Christians have struggled with this too: praying for a cure from science and from God and not sure if God likes science. Praying to God about the worrying data and fearful modelling while wanting to ignore the fear and trust 'the promises'.
John Robinson offered this wisdom to his people:
When we avow the Scriptures perfection, we do not exclude from men common sense and the light of nature. Yea, we ... beg of God as necessary for their fruitful understanding the light of His Holy Spirit.
Or to put it another way. the Scriptures teach us that God is the giver of all good gifts, so the benefits of science are from Him. The work of scientists using the light of nature and common sense is no less from God than the Biblical promises they (maybe unwittingly) fulfil by supplying us with more safety.
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