"Testing" the Truthfulness of the Gospel

This week for my Physical Science class, we were told to read a talk given at a devotional here at BYU. The title of the talk was "He Stands at the Door and Knocks," and it was given by Professor Kowallis. My Physical Science professor had told us that this devotional would have an essay question related to it on our next text. As I read the talk, I kept waiting for it to be strictly about science, but I soon found out that it was a combination of both my testimony or spiritual things as well as scientific things. In the talk, Professor Kowallis makes a very strong relation between how we determine things are true in science and how we determine things are true in the gospel. He explains that he had many challenges in his life where the thought occurred to him to "test" the truthfulness of the gospel just as he would the truthfulness of science. Obeying exactly what the scriptures teach, he got on his knees and prayed for an answer. Because of the witnesses he has had throughout his life, he will always believe the truth of the gospel over the believed truths of science. This talk has given me a new perspective on the correlation between science and God. I have always thought of science as a contradicting belief to that of the gospel, but after having read this talk, I now understand that science was given to us to help us understand all of God's creations; the two tie together very closely. When something in science contradicts that of the gospel, I must always rely on the testimony I have.