Explain how science is a means by which people fulfill the cultural mandate (Genesis 1:28-30)?

Question

I don't need an answer, I'd just like some clarification of the question. I keep reading it but don't fully understand what it is asking.

Answer 1

You'd have to look up the verse and see what it says first, then explain how science fulfils it. A mandate is like an order, or the statement of a plan, so maybe it's somehting like "be fruitful, and multiply" or "don't eat from the tree" or something like that.

Had to look it up. Here it is:

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

So this is basically a "reconcile the Bible with science" question, which I'm not going to touch, but I hope this helps.

Answer 2

28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

I assume that the cultural mandate in question is the essential command to be fruitful, multiply, and make the earth and all its accessories the property of the human race. An explanation of how science is a means to fulfill this mandate shouldn't be hard to contrive; after all, science gives us everything from taxonomy (to name a thing is to control it, in a sense) to genetic manipulation (if you can tell its children to have more and tastier meat, it's for darned sure subdued).

Answer 3

The "mandate" from God was :Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." To accomplishe the task: And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.
Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so. Therefore, in the context of the question, the requirement of the human body can only be met when we fufill the "mandate" (Science proves beyond doubt that mankind NEEDS these types of "foods" in order to live a healthy life.)

Answer 4

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

I suppose that someone with an agenda could interpret this as man ruling his environment, including the invention of the notion of science in order to subdue the earth. I tend to think of science as the observation of God's world, the order He created and the perfect disorder also.

Answer 5

God gave mankind a mandate to be fruitful and multiply and to rule over the earth. The question is asking how does modern-day science help us to reproduce and to be good stewards of the earth that God gave to us?