How can people believe in even basic science and also the Bible ...?

Question

One example of a glaring problem:

According to the Bible, God created the Earth, then the Sun, then the firmament (stars).

We know from basic physics and chemistry as they apply to cosmic evolution that nothing heavier than helium could have existed for billions of years - that the first and second generation stars (which took at least millions of years to be created and billions to live and die) were the furnaces for atoms like oxygen and carbon. In short, no life form of any kind - human or otherwise - could have witnessed the first stars, or their progenitors billions of years later.

Dandy, on the contrary, Newton's first law states thusly:

An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

I think perhaps you need to brush up on your science.

Answer 1

Well, actually the Bible does not say that. Genesis 1:1 reads: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." According to this scripture, the heavens (which include all celestial bodies, sun, moon, stars) were created. Beginning with verse 2, the account reports, not the creation of earth but, rather, the preparation of earth for habitation. Then came the creation of life forms.

Moreover, verse 1 does not say when God created the heavens and the earth. It simply says "in the beginning." This leaves room for the universe with their celestial bodies to be millions, even billions of years old. The Genesis account does not contradict basic science.

It also should be noted that the Hebrew word for create is bara. This word is found at Genesis 1:1. At Genesis 1:16, however, where God proceeds to "make the two great luminaries..." the Hebrew word is asah, meaning make. These two words carry different meanings and are employed differently.

Hannah

Answer 2

We recognize of the beginnings as Genesis one million :one million by way of to Revelations 22:21 I want say not more. Science is a thought of postulations approximately what exists, what exited and the way lengthy in the past it used to be. The technological know-how for the Bible is the written phrase of the Bible in the event you think in Socrates through Plato's writings, you then ought to think the Bible as Christ impending and writing? So we finish with 2 identified info: one million) Socrates under no circumstances wrote whatever. two) Neither did Jesus write whatever. But, each have been written approximately. Think approximately it now.

Answer 3

Its your own positioning of science as fact and religion as faith that does not enable you to see how the two live side by side. You may know a lot about science but you dont even know the basics of postmodernism or any real philosophy it seems?

Have you ever realized that science is a discourse? that means it is a narrative that presupposes a way of thinking about the world. It requires a certain amount of faith, for example, do you believe in the laws of Physics? yes? well the basic laws of physics cannot explain how a bumble bee can fly and predict that it shouldnt be able to. But you still belive in the laws of physics right? yes? why? because you have faith that they are right even though you can't explain everything through them.
That is how ppl also have faith in God.
It cannot be claimed as a certainty that its only a matter of time until physics has closed that gap, it would require a total rewrite of the laws of physics. It proves what I am talking about, the real faith held by scientists in the power of science.

You have faith in your discourse as I have shown, and so do Christians, and I have not worries in allowing science and God to coexist in my mind.
For example. In the past we would have said rain was an act of God, now we dont say that, we say its caused by transpiration and atmospheric pressure. That does not disprove his existence to me because,(wait for it I know you probably have never thought of this before) ...............the belief of God never DENIED that physical things HAPPEN. It just claims that HE invented this reality and so also is a master physicist, chemist and biologist.
There is your answer.

Honesty, how could you think that God denies science?Maybe it does for you, but there is NO reson why it objectively does, as I showed before. The fact that you think it does shows that you you are investing a lot of faith in the belief that science and God cannot live side by side. I suggest that its really important to you, to prove that God does not exist in science. Hence, your posts to Christians here.
You are really saying that your way of believing is better than another, but as I have already proved your way has gaping holes too. If you have faith in such things, why dont you understand and accept that other ppl have the freedom to do that same thing you do but dont admit, and are capable of it?

Answer 4

Well both r correct in their own places. Let me tell u when u were small and not even in KG did u not see for ur self that the land is flat and strainght (u wre not wrong then), when u were in in second std did u not study that earth is round, it was not wrong even then as u would not hav understood anything beyond that, when u grew up to 8th Std, it was told that earth is Geoid (bulge at the sides and flattened at the poles) It was not wrong even then.
Bible was written 2000 years ago, when every one was un-eduated, U should et the essence and appreciate how they simplifeid the concepts for un-educated people.
Now that we are educated people with beter understanding we can understand and appreciate everything, but not then.

Answer 5

The same way I can believe that Jesus wasn't a liar although He told many stories (parables) that weren't true.

The Bible teaches the Truth...not (necessarily) history or scientific fact. Your example is from the Book of Genesis. The Truth being taught is that God made the world and man out of His love for us. It's not a lesson on biology, quantum physics, and astronomy

Answer 6

Does God have to follow scientific rules? Is it that far fetched that God created the universe in 7 days when scientists claim it took millions to form?

Answer 7

Science and the Bible are not mutually exclusive nor is faith incompatible with science. Truly, I don;t know where you got that idea. Science answers our questions of "what," "how," "where, "when." The Bible answers our "why" questions. So, if you have both science and the Bible, you wouldn't be walking around this planet perpetually bemused, ah?

Answer 8

There is a difference between science and the Bible
but when you try to put evolution into the mixture then that is where the problem comes in

Answer 9

Well, according to Newton's First Law of Motion, chaos cannot come from order. That is what Evolution says happened. And soil needs living things to exist and living things need soil to exist so that makes Evolution pretty much impossible.

Answer 10

Science makes guesses called theories, based on faith. For example the theory/guess of evolution can't be proven, but those who accept it do so by faith since there is no proof. Life can't evolve from non-life, so evolution is flawed becaused it can't explain how the very first life form came into existence.