
Originally Posted by
theQuestIsNotOver
To get to your questions, the God I believe in is one that is also a God of science, and not just faith, a God of faith and science. How is that possible?
In my case that does not even make any sense. Science is not something out there in the world, it is a project and activity of human beings trying to understand the world around him with a specific methodology. So the question here is whether God has any place in that methodology and the answer you will get from anyone with trainging in the sciences
is an absolutely emphatic NO! I think that modern science was originally created by religious people who saw value in looking for explanations for things
other than God and thus modern science became another way of looking at things for people who already had theology to look at things in terms of their relationship with God. To put God into science is thus undo what they have done and to destroy science utterly, saying that there is only theology, and THAT I must oppose most strenuously!
It is the universe and the earth which is out there, NOT science. It is the universe and the earth which are the creation of God, NOT science. Thus, if you allow me to get extremely metaphorical here, the universe and the earth is very much like a "Bible" written in God's own language and mathematics and science is one way of pursuing a translation. The holy scriptures of other relgions might be considered different translation efforts and you are of course free to pursue your own translation however you feel inspired to do so, BUT none of these should be confused with what we call modern science.

Originally Posted by
theQuestIsNotOver
I believe an all-knowing God would know how space-time works.
I do too. God created it so He not only knows how it works but why He created it that way. And I believe that we can see the reasons why by studying it, because it is only natural that the design and structure of a created thing should reveal the purpose of its creator in making it.

Originally Posted by
theQuestIsNotOver
And that's the really strange things about science today, namely that they do not acknowledge that God could be all-knowing in regard to space-time being understood as a holistic construct imagined/theorised in the mind's eye.
Because they CANT acknowledge or say anything about God in any way whatsoever. Because if they did, it would NOT BE SCIENCE. It would be theology. AND theology is what YOU are doing when you try to put God back in the equation. GOOD! You SHOULD do that. It means that science is informing your theology just as it informs mine.
BUT if you are expecting the scientists to let your theology inform them in their work then you will fail as long as there is any true scientist left breathing on the planet, and that is the case however many scientists you may buy off, as the creationists do, to betray the principles of science in order participate in whatever propaganda scheme you care to start.

Originally Posted by
theQuestIsNotOver
But tell me, what features of your faith stop you from thinking that your God is not also a God of space-time and thus presumably also science?
Although I do not think it is appropriate for religion or a philosophical/religious methodology to think that it can inform science, science most certainly should inform our philosophical and theological thinking on those issues where science can make determinations. So it is the scientific determination of the age of the universe as 13.7 billion years and the age of the eart as 5 billion years and length of time that life has been developing as 2.5 to 4 billion years, and not the idea of some sects that all of these things are only 6000 years old.
You must first understand that I am a scientist first and always have been. I was not raised Christian but slowly came to that conviction over the last 30 years of my life. You ask me about my faith as if this were equivalent to belief and that makes answering your question more difficult. But anyway, my theological conclusion is that God is an infinite eternal trans-personal being and science makes it clear that the space-time physical universe is a finite mathematical and therefore mechanical inanimate object that came into existence 13.7 billion years ago. From my studies of physics, I have come to the conclusion that it is a product of design for the specific purpose of bringing about the existence of life. The universe is of the nature of a womb and this is consistent with my belief that the universe was created by God for the purpose of creating living beings with free will.