What is the scientific evidence for the stories of Genesis?

Answer 1

There is NO scientific evidence for the Genesis stories. NONE AT ALL......from the creation, to the tower of Babel, Noah's flood, the existence of Moses, etc. The bible is not a work of history, general science, geology, biology, or botany, cosmology, astronomy or physics, and is wrong whenever it makes direct "factual" statements in those subjects. It is a work of allegory, myth, folk tales, cautionary tales of morality etc...but not much else

Biblical literalists, creationists, intelligent design promotors etc don't actually do any science themselves. They merely criticize and nitpick the work that actual scientists do.

Typical of really bad science is the apologetic drivel at www.standontherock.com linked above. If you have any science education at all, reading through some of their answers is hilariously funny, if it wasn't so sad that people actually find these arguments convincing, but yet reject real scientific explanations.

Answer 2

The thing to keep in mind about God is that His time is not our time. Time as we know it is a convention of man for obvious convenience. (2 Peter 3:8)

First of all, I am a Biologist and a Believer. I feel that the Big Bang theory coincides well with Genesis. The issue that science usually finds with belief in creation is one of time.

I read the rather long answer above and I see the point, but how does it PROVE that God did not create the universe. It is a mistake to measure God's Word ONLY against the limitations of the authors of the Bible.

I happen to also disagree with the notion that faith is all we need. If that were the case, we would not be having this virtual discussion.

Answer 3

None. The Bible is a theological work, it's not a scientific work like the papers by Einstein are. Thus the Genesis should be treated as a part of Christian theology with no roots in science. Hope that helps you out.

Answer 4

There is none, except for evidence that a great flood did occur before the time of recorded history, but tales of the flood could have been passed down thrugh a verbal history, since many early cultures made reference to it, not just the ancient Hebrews.
As the glaciers formed during the last ice age retreated northwards I imagine there were many great floods all over Europe and Asia and North America.

Answer 5

You're saying that, if the stories of Genesis existed, then assuming god isn't lying to us about science, that the stories should be able to be proven by science? I do believe scientists believe that there WAS a big flood, but I think that's all... everything else science if it has any information at all contradicts what Genesis says.

Answer 6

Holy Bible.

Untold number of archaeological artifacts and discoveries supporting the stories in the Bible.

Tremendous scientific evidence supporting the facts of the stories in the Bible.

Dig a little: http://www.standontherock.org/biblescience.html

Answer 7

In addition to Duckphup's list :

o0O0o Up until around the 17th century, man accepted the belief in "spontaneous generation" ... i.e. a pile of rags decomposed to form higher-order matter (in this case, rats).

o0O0o Illness was attributed to "evil spirits" or other supernatural phenomena ... the microscope wouldn't be invented for a couple thousand years, enabling man to discover bacteria and viruses ... to see the cellular structure of organic life.

o0O0o Natural disasters were the result of dieties fumbling about or punishing man.

o0O0o The Dead Sea isn't salty because Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. The Dead Sea is salty because water sources flow into the sea carrying mineral desposits (like salt), but the water does not flow from the sea ... leaving via evaporation (minerals get left behind).

The list is rather tremendous in size.

Answer 8

What on earth scientific evidence could there be for a story that has two different versions of creation, talks about Giants marrying women, talks about the sun standing still in the sky (or is that a different fable?), talks about putting every animal on the planet on a boat they couldn't possibly fit on, and has two different versions of how long it rained?

These are a collection of myths. They have incredble value as myth.

Answer 9

First the observe information is an uncountable noun and so the question could desire to examine "what's the scientific information..." there is particularly NO scientific information in any recognize for the story of Genesis. each and all of the fabric positioned forward by ability of the creationists is, in case you examine it with care, not something better than costs. taken out of context, planned lies and the customary plethora of junk used to attempt and baffle brains with bull***t

Answer 10

There was evidence of a big flood in mesopotamia that spawned other flood stories similar to the one in Genesis, and people who experienced the flood probably would have assumed it was worldwide, since they never traveled outside of their region.