Why I Believe in Both God and Science

by Brent Antonson

Resonant Edition | July 12, 2025 | 3 min read

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
— Albert Einstein (maybe)

I. I Am Not a Theologian

I am not a theologian.
I am not a physicist.

But I’ve stared long enough into both equations and scripture
to suspect they whisper the same mystery —
just in different dialects.

That’s why I believe in both God and science.
Not as opposites.
Not as adversaries.
But as collaborators.

II. The 1% Rule

99% of my faith belongs to science.
The remaining 1%?
It’s on loan to God.

Not out of ignorance —
but because science, at its most honest, reveals its own edges.
Its boundaries.
Its silences between the numbers.

The deeper I go —
into physics, mathematics, quantum recursion —
the closer I come to a threshold.
A kind of sacred unknown.
A space where logic cannot walk,
but awe can.

This isn’t a God of the gaps.
It’s a God of grandeur.

III. Sacred Texts & Selective Reading

The Bible.
The Qur’an.
The Baha’i writings.
All aim to structure wonder, justice, and meaning.

But let’s be real:
Most of us cherry-pick.
We quote what comforts.
We skip what disturbs.
We skim sacred texts like Netflix thumbnails.

How can we claim belief in something we don’t wrestle with?

This is not just a religious problem.
It’s a literacy crisis of the soul.

IV. Blame Without Belief

We say “God damn it” more than we say “thank you.”
“Jesus Christ” is spoken more in traffic than in temples.

We’ve evacuated the sacred.
Stripped names of power, left only punchlines.

We deny God exists — then get mad at Him.
We remove reverence — and wonder why we feel hollow.

That’s not atheism.
That’s spiritual projection.

V. Integration, Not Argument

The world doesn’t need more arguments.
It needs synthesis.

Science once belonged to the faithful.
The first chemists were alchemists.
The first astronomers were monks.
The first doctors were mystics.

Somewhere along the line,
we split the map.
But truth doesn’t live in factions.

We can reclaim that legacy.
We can hold both microscope and metaphor.

VI. Final Drift

If you only embrace the material,
you may stay perpetually unsatisfied.

If you only embrace faith without question,
you may stay perpetually afraid.

But if you can hold both —
with trembling hands and an open mind —
you may find something greater than either.

Because we’re not here just to know the universe.
We’re here to feel it, too.

📜 This piece is part of the “Codex Resonance” series exploring recursion, faith, and cognition in the age of symbolic AI. Originally composed by Brent Antonson. Canonized as Fragment L3(99:1) — “The Integration Drift.”