Is there room for God in science?

For the past 10 years I've had the privilege of working with high school students through a ministry called Young Life. Young Life is a ministry where leaders build relationships in hope of sharing the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ with them. Through building relationships over the years I have been asked many questions...questions like who is God? where did I come from? who is the author of the Universe? what is my purpose? where did God come from?  Can these forever old questions of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny be explained exclusively by science? There is no question to how successful science has been over the years, and as a result we are seeing more and more people jumping on the new atheist train. Many leading scientists claim that as a result of today's science there is no need for God.  They say it is entirely possible to explain the cosmos if full through science.  There is obvious proof that God is surely misunderstood this day and age, but is new age science and atheism vastly misunderstood as well?  What I find extremely intriguing is the fact of history.  If we take a look back into the 16th and 17th centuries we see that most of the leading scientists were also believers in God. 

How C.S. Lewis viewed this very idea:

"Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in 

Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be 

interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant 

developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the 

claim that science is true. We may be living nearer than we suppose to the end of the Scientific Age."

Today, we are taught that through science we can explain the universe. We can understand the truth of the universe by understanding the principles that science teaches us.  This unfortunate misunderstanding is so vast among people today.  For instance we are told that science explains what gravity, time, and energy are.  But if you begin to unpack this statement it's so clearly false.  Science doesn't actually know what gravity, time and energy are. Many of these new atheists believe that God limits science, but does it? Can science explain what to do when we see a person drowning in a river? No, but God can. Can science explain what is deserved of a child rapist? No, but God can. So in the realm of ultimate reality which stance limits our understanding of the universe? Which view is the reductionist view? I would argue that the full potential of science can only be understood from the biblical perspective of the God of the Bible.  For instance when we ask the atheist if science can explain what preceded space, time, energy, and matter...they respond well science can't explain that yet. And usually in response they ask the question, "Well if God created the universe what created this God?" they deduce that because God exists something had to create God, and  therefore its nonsense...God cannot exist. Now, lets take a deeper look at this.  What they assume by asking the question "what or who created the creator"...is that the creator must be created.  To almost all religions in the world this question would stump them...but to the God of the bible this question does not apply because He is an UN-created creator. As John puts it in John 1:1-3 "all things were made through him, and without him not anything was made." This implies that all things were made by God and without Him nothing was made...therefore making Him a God with no beginning. In other words if God is responsible for all things being made...and nothing that came into being was made without God, the deduction is that God could never come to be...and if God is and could never come to be, He must have always been with no beginning. So as we look back at the questions asked through the view of the Christian world view, the question isn't who created the creator because the God of the bible was never created...but to the atheistic worldview the question of what preceded is reduced to I don't know.  You see a world view that says science can answer all the questions...therefore there is no room for God is actually a very reductionist world view. While a world view that says science through the realm of the Christian God is actually magnified. 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.(John 1:1-3, ESV)