“The scientist’s pursuit of the past ends in the moment of creation…. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

While the Bible is not a scientific textbook, Scripture has given us two profound statements about the universe and our place in it that no scientist can refute.

The first is this: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). Although modern science emerged from a Christian worldview, many modern scientists have worked overtime to explain creation without reference to a Creator.

However, in his book, God and the Astronomers, the late astrophysicist Robert Jastrow pointed out that the accumulating evidence for the Big Bang—when our cosmos began via a primeval explosion—forced them to at least consider adding God to their cosmological equations:

The scientist’s pursuit of the past ends in the moment of creation…. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

The second statement is like unto the first: “So God created man in his own image … male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27). Leaving aside for now the question of our being made in the Imago Dei and all this might imply, this verse affirms that the one mankind is divided into two sexes—male and female.

While such a statement would have been boringly uncontroversial just a few years ago, that is anything but the case today. Activists have insisted on dividing people’s biological sex—male or female—from their gender, which they say is a social construct.

How then do we account for the obvious behavioral differences between men and women, boys and girls? Activists point to how children are nurtured—at early ages girls are given dolls, boys receive toy guns, etc.—as determinative in how they behave and see themselves. They claim there is a “heteronormative patriarchy” that forces children into predetermined gender roles. Gender is no longer based on biology—on our creation as male and female—but on our feelings.

As trans activist Geena Rocero asserts, “We are all assigned a gender at birth. Sometimes that assignment doesn’t match our inner truth, and there needs to be a new place—a place for self-identification. I was not born a boy, I was assigned boy at birth. Understanding the difference between the two is crucial to our culture and society moving forward in the way we treat—and talk about—transgender individuals.”

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