Does true science harmonize with the Bible?

Question

The foregoing should in no way discourage an interest in science. To be sure, the Bible itself invites us to learn from God’s handiwork and to discern God’s amazing qualities in what we see. (Isaiah 40:26; Romans 1:20) Of course, the Bible does not claim to teach science. Rather, it reveals God’s standards, aspects of his personality that creation alone cannot teach, and his purpose for humans. (Psalm 19:7-11; 2 Timothy 3:16) Yet, when the Bible does refer to natural phenomena, it is consistently accurate. Galileo himself said: “Both the Holy Scriptures and nature proceed from the Divine Word . . . Two truths can never contradict one another.” Consider the following examples.

Even more fundamental than the movement of stars and planets is that all matter in the universe is governed by laws, such as the law of gravity. The earliest known non-Biblical reference to physical laws was made by Pythagoras, who believed that the universe could be explained by numbers.

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Two thousand years later, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton finally proved that matter is governed by rational laws.

The earliest Biblical reference to natural law is contained in the book of Job. About 1600 B.C.E., God asked Job: “Have you come to know the statutes [or, laws] of the heavens?” (Job 38:33) Recorded in the seventh century B.C.E., the book of Jeremiah refers to Jehovah as the Creator of “the statutes of the moon and the stars” and “the statutes of heaven and earth.” (Jeremiah 31:35; 33:25) In view of these statements, Bible commentator G. Rawlinson observed: “The general prevalence of law in the material world is quite as strongly asserted by the sacred writers as by modern science.”

If we use Pythagoras as a point of reference, the statement in Job was about a thousand years ahead of its time. Keep in mind that the Bible’s objective is not simply to reveal physical facts but primarily to impress upon us that Jehovah is the Creator of all things---

the one who can create physical laws.—Job 38:4, 12; 42:1, 2.

Another example we can consider is that the earth’s waters undergo a cyclic motion called the water cycle, or the hydrologic cycle. Put simply, water evaporates from the sea, forms clouds, precipitates onto the land, and eventually returns to the sea. The oldest surviving non-Biblical references to this cycle are from the fourth century B.C.E. However, Biblical statements predate that by hundreds of years. For example, in the 11th century B.C.E., King Solomon of Israel wrote: “All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from which the rivers come, to there and from there they return again.”—Ecclesiastes 1:7, The Amplified Bible.

Likewise, about 800 B.C.E. the prophet Amos, a humble shepherd and farmworker, wrote that Jehovah is “the One calling for the waters of the sea, that he may pour them out upon the surface of the earth.” (Amos 5:8) Without using complex, technical language...

both Solomon and Amos accurately described the water cycle, each from a slightly different perspective.

The Bible also speaks of God as “hanging the earth upon nothing,” or he “suspends earth in the void,” according to The New English Bible. (Job 26:7) In view of the knowledge available in 1600 B.C.E., roughly when those words were spoken, it would have taken a remarkable man to assert that a solid object can remain suspended in space without any physical support. As previously mentioned, Aristotle himself rejected the concept of a void, and he lived over 1,200 years later!

Amazing!

Answer 1

Simple answer yes, science is an extention of the scriptures.
I Cr 13;8a
12-5-6

Answer 2

Definitely. Most of the early great scientist were Christians, and gave credit to God for their discoveries. The greatest scientific mind that ever lived, Isaac Newton, wrote over a million words of commentary on the book of Daniel and Revelation. He took the Bible very seriously. Today, in public schools, they can teach that Newton was the greatest scientist that ever lived, but they can't say he was a Christian. Maybe it's time for the country to rethink the direction we're going in.

Answer 3

Yes. Science is an attempt by humans to understand the intricasy of God's handiwork.

Answer 4

Latter-Day Saints believe that True Religion and True Science are completely Compatible. For true Science and true Religion both come from the same source. GOD.

Answer 5

Google Theist Evolution.

Answer 6

Heck no, here are some errors in sicince in the Bible:
Bats are birds (Leviticus 11:13,19)
Birds have four legs, and so do locusts, beetles, grasshoppers, and other flying things ( Leviticas 11:20-23)
Pi=3 (1 Kings 7:23)

Answer 7

Yes, true, honest, good science totally harmonizes with the bible. It really ticks off a lot of athiests, agnostics, and anyone who believes in Evolution.

Answer 8

Yes. God is the First & Greatest Scientist.

Answer 9

Vean la película el Código Da Vinci o sino lean el libro.

Answer 10

I would give you a big long, drawn-out answer, but I've decided to stop trying to use logical arguments with religious people. It does absolutely no good. I can sum it all up with two words anyway.

You fail.