This is very distressing to me and makes me feel unwelcome in the LCMS. There’s one small sentence of “science can be good” but it seems most of the article implies you either need to choose to believe science or God. I am a veterinarian - a scientist. I can pray for the best outcome in my patients but that doesn’t mean I won’t use medications and vaccinations indicated by science to help and protect my patients. I trust my doctor to know how to take care of me when I’m sick but that doesn’t mean I don’t know who the true Healer is. I do not expect perfection or everything to go right, as this article claims the “scientist” does. God has given us minds and capability to discover the wonders of his creation. This is what science is - exploring and understanding the world around us. Coronavirus is present for one reason... sin is a part of this world. It is not related to scientific advancements. So then I ask: Why science? What about the idol of money? athletics? materialism? politics? religion? Anything can be an idol. Why isolate science? Why isolate me and make it seem like my scientific self and mind, with which God has blessed me, is wrong?