The Bible states that God created earth in 6 days (with one to rest). Earth included humans, mammals, etc. Yet, Science, which uses hard facts, tells us that the world was around for millions or even billions of years before anything resembling a human walked the earth. so my question is, what do i believe, the Bible, or Science?
2006-06-14 17:34:20 · 46 answers · asked by Marines 4 Life 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The bible is fiction. Science is fact. Do you want to believe in a made up story about virgins giving birth and the dead coming to life or the reality of evolution? It's up to you. I prefer to not keep my head in the sand.
2006-06-14 17:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by Danny 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It's a very big question, and the answer is too big, but I'll try to be short as much as possible. Of course we must trust the Bible. But sometimes, the writers needed to explain to the people in an easy way, so they used some stories. And the story of the creation is what we call, a myth.It is like a legend writing by the writer of the creation chapter to explain to the people how did the world began, because at that time there were no science to explain that. So the world was around for billions of years before anything resembling a human walked the earth, even there were dinosaurs before the man existed, which they are not mentioned in the Bible but everyone knows that they existed and there are proofs on that, even the Church doesn't deny it.
So to answer the question, the earth's creation wasn't done in 6 days as the Bible says, but it doesn't mean that the Bible lied. In contrary, It explain for the Man what we wouldn't have understood for many long years while the science wasn't created yet, or wasn't able to explain.
We must know that the science was created to help the humans to develop and to find many answers, in parallel with the Bible and not to deny it.
2006-06-14 18:03:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible doesn't say that the earth isn't millions of years old. It doesn't denote how long a biblical 'day' was in Genesis, either. Study with a Strong's Concordance and a King James Version and ignore the 'church scholors' who teach that the earth is 6,000 years old, it's nonsense. The Hebrew text actually supports that the earth is millions of years old and that there was an earth age before the one we are in, that was destroyed in a great cataclysm (Hebrew - katabole) . A Strong's concordance will prove it to you from the original languages.
The cataclysm destroyed all life on earth, knocked the earth off of its axis and created the poles, causing us to go from a global tropical environment to the one we're in now. In the very beginning of Genesis, the bible states (in translated English) "the earth was without form and void", but the Hebrew says "the earth BECAME without form and void". It wasn't created formless, it became formless after the cataclysm that destroyed the first earth age. We are now in the second earth age that Adam (mankind in the Hebrew) was created in and told to 'REplenish the earth' (also in Genesis.) How can you REplenish a planet unless it had been 'plenished' or filled beforehand?
Science and the scriptures do mesh, unfortunately unlearned Christians who don't do their homework have no clue what the Hebrew says, heck most of them only hear one or two lines of actually scripture a week and it would take 600 years to read the whole bible if you left it up to church to teach it to you, and even then they rely on transliterated English and not the original languages.
It's obvious there was a great cataclysm, the proof is indisputable, we are finding evidence of the 1st earth age all around us. This is why there are remnants of tropical foilage under the tundra, wolley mammoths with buttercups still in their mouths, extinct species, etc. It's all there, and the bible does talk about it. Churches don't, but the bible does.
Read further here: http://www.ricter.com/wordline/void.htm
Study here: www.shepherdschapel.org
They'll set you straight. :)
2006-06-14 17:55:26 · answer #3 · answered by ... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if you should ask such deep questions on Yahoo answers.
All I can say is this:
Science is the study of nature as it exists. The laws of science you read about were not created by man. We merely discover the laws of nature. And that is science. We did not make those laws. We did not create the force of gravity, or the electrons or the equations of motion.
On the other hand the bible didn't arrive by fax from heaven. It was written by men. Roman emperor Constantine declared christianity the official religion of the Roman empire and had the bible organized in the form we see today.
The only true signature of god is in the laws of nature, which we study in science. Science is a glimpse into the mind of god.
2006-06-14 17:50:21 · answer #4 · answered by The_Dark_Knight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There should be a compromise. Also, I believe that within religion, there is science, and within science, there is religion. When Science says that earth was created billions of years ago and the Bible and other religious texts say that god created it in six days, we can compromise that. we can say: OK! maybe God took a planet and gave it water and everything that is included in today's earth. there is still a lot to fill to this, but at least i hope made a point here.
2006-06-14 17:43:00 · answer #5 · answered by arabianofelix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science changes... The Bible has not... For instance, the world being flat, then round... The bible says it is round... Science has never disproved anything in the bible. When people picture Adam and Eve, they picture adults... Why is it hard to believe that God created a mature Earth as well...
2006-06-14 17:38:52 · answer #6 · answered by dudeabides 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The creation story is based on Babylonian mythology. It's purpose is to give us an understanding that God made for us a perfect world, and man damaged that world. It was true then, and it's still true now. So, I believe the Bible story, and Science. Science explains what happened. The Bible explains why.
2006-06-14 17:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by homebuyer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe in science for science has facts..
The bible is nothing more than a collection of stories told by people who rolled around in the dirt. How can you possibly believe in a book that has no facts to back it up other than the close-minded and copout answers such as you have to believe or god influenced the bible-- which is nothing more than circular reasoning
2006-06-14 18:26:11 · answer #8 · answered by gwad_is_a_myth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you believe what your heart tells you. The Bible says that, and this is not a direct quote but close, "you would not understand if I told you." the Bible says that basically we cannot fathom or even begin to make it make sense to our minds. We are Human. therefore we will think human. Now I know that I am a bit off on the above. I have never been real good at the exact verse but the basic is there. Just believe by faith. Believe me, it is harder then not believing at all, but the LORD is GOOD.
2006-06-14 17:44:09 · answer #9 · answered by melissa s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bible
2006-06-14 17:44:28 · answer #10 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. You can believe both. However to do so, you must not take everything in the bible literally. Also realize that science isn't exact; theories aren't proofs, etc. You can believe in the Big Bang as many scientists do, and believe that God created it. I suggest letting each be your guide in measured portions. Anything in extremes is likely to be harmful. That includes science and religion.
2006-06-14 17:42:51 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋