Not at all. Science explains how things work, but it doesn’t answer the deeper question of why they exist in the first place. Many of the greatest scientific minds—like Newton, Kepler, and Faraday—actually believed that studying the universe was a way of uncovering God’s design.

Saying science disproves God is like saying flour disproves the baker. God is the baker; science is the ingredients. Just because we can study how the ingredients interact doesn’t mean there’s no one behind the recipe. In fact, the more complex and intentional the ingredients look, the more it points to a master baker.

Science is based on observation and testing within the natural world. God, by definition, is supernatural—beyond time, space, and matter—so He’s not something science could “disprove” any more than a metal detector could disprove the existence of wind. They’re simply not measuring the same thing.

In fact, the more we learn through science—the fine-tuning of the universe, the complexity of DNA, the order in nature—the more it points to an intelligent designer, not away from one.

The short answer? Because of free will—and because this world is broken by sin.

God created a perfect world and gave humans the freedom to choose Him or walk away. Real love requires real choice. But when Adam and Eve chose sin, they didn’t just mess things up for themselves—they opened the door to everything broken: suffering, death, pain, even disease. Romans 5:12 says, “Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people.”

That’s why even things like cancer, mental illness, and natural disasters exist—not because someone sinned directly, but because the world itself is no longer how God meant it to be. Sin fractured creation, and we all live in the fallout.

And when it comes to things like violence, injustice, or abuse, those are often the result of people using their free will to hurt others. God could force everyone to be kind and obedient—but then we’d be puppets, not people. And love can’t exist without freedom.

But here’s the hope: God didn’t leave us in our mess. He stepped into it. Through Jesus, He faced suffering, pain, and even death, and made a way for us to be restored. He doesn’t promise a pain-free life now, but He does promise to be near, to work all things for good, and to one day wipe away every tear (Revelation 21:4).

Evil and suffering are real—but they’re not the end. Jesus proved that God can bring life even out of death. And that promise still stands.