So it comes down to this: Christians believe certain things will happen about which they do not have absolute certainty. But humans are not supposed to have absolute certainty of anything. That was the lie of the snake in the garden. (Are you sure God told you you would die?) But they believe it anyway. Why? Christians don't know what the future holds but they do know who holds the future. Christians put their faith in something (ahem, someONE) who knows everything. And so astrophysicists and evolutionists ridicule them by saying they believe something they can't or don't know.
But here's the rub: scientism does the same thing. Science, as anyone who is as acquainted with it as they should be knows, has not explained every last phenomenon in the universe. If it had, we would no longer have need to publish papers in quantum mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics. But we do. It's quite similar to math. We begin with assumptions (or axioms) and run with them. Science has made a lot of progress, but it's still going somewhere. There are also specific phenomenon that not only science has yet to explain, but current scientific theories won't be able to explain. Pendulums swing faster during eclipses; probes in space are not where they should be according to Einstein's relativity theory. This means a new theory of celestial mechanics will eventually be needed. The list goes on.
But whenever anyone cites this, scientists seems to have this supreme confidence. "We will get there though, we just haven't gotten there yet. Science will prevail eventually!" Sounds a bit like faith. They don't know what the future holds, but they do know that science holds the future. Scientists somehow know certain things will happen (such as the above phenomenon being explained eventually) and you just need to believe that it will. Russell and Whitehead wanted to ground all of mathematics in airtight logic and prove all the theorems that could be proven. Then Godel came by and blasted the whole thing to pieces. Godel showed there are things that mathematics can't know, even within their own systems. Guess what that means for science?
If scientists were to be fair, they would have to at least concede they don't know if science will ever explain everything (which it won't, anyway). But they don't seem to know that that is what they are doing.
