Who Saves Us From Coronavirus - Science Or God?

The statement 'Pray as much as you like, only science will save us' cannot be uttered by a sincere Christian because a Christian believes in prayer. This statement could not have come from the theistic bandwagon, for those who sincerely believe in God would not entertain such a thought process. Hence those who subscribe to this statement ought to be from the atheistic or the scientific materialistic worldview.

Pray as much as you like, only science will save us pits God against science. This, however, is an artificial conflict.

Science per se does not engineer this conflict, but scientists and their adherents do. Interestingly, there are Christian scientists, even those that are much acclaimed in their domain, who believe in God and prayer.

Christian scientists view the same data or information that the atheist or agnostic scientists view. Fascinatingly, the very same data that guides Christian scientists towards God motivates the agnostic and atheist scientists to disregard God.

So it's not the data, but it is the interpretation of that data that motivates scientists to move towards or away from God. Digging deeper, it can also be reasoned out that the innate bias against God impels certain scientists to disregard God.

Richard Lewontin, a leading evolutionist, famously expressed that innate bias against God. His dogged determination to prevent God from entering through the door is verbalized here, "Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." [Emphasis Mine]1

An a priori commitment to materialism induces a scientist to preclude any notion of God to enter his realm. Thus the scientific materialist suffers from this innate bias against God. We have great regard for science, no doubts. The fact of the matter is science is yet to conquer COVID-19. In fact, science is learning from the human immune system designed by God to overcome the Coronavirus.

Although God can heal everyone, the Bible does not teach that God would heal every single person who pleads for healing.

Consider the healing narrative at the Pool of Bethesda. A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying there. But Jesus did not heal all of them. He healed only one (John 5:1-13).

Paul pleaded with God to heal him, but God chose not to heal him (2 Corinthians 12: 7-10).

Timothy was not healed of his frequent ailments (1 Timothy 5:23).

Trophimus was also not healed of his sickness (2 Timothy 4:20).

If God were to heal every believer, it is quite plausible that all the sick people would become Christians. They'd become Christians for the sake of healing. That's a wrong intent!

We don't become a Christian for health and wealth. We become a Christian so that we are forgiven of all our sins and to be in right standing with God.