Is there more beauty in the complexity of the universe as explained by science or as explained by the Bible?

Question

The scientific explaination is far to long to write here or even summarize.

But the Bible basically says that God made a disk, painted stars on the heavens and put the heavens over the disk like a tent.

Isaiah 40:22 "
It is God Who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; it is He Who stretches out the heavens like curtains and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,"

Answer 1

I don't think either explanation is "beautiful". I think the universe itself is beautiful. I accept facts about the universe as they come and know that ideas about some things change as new information comes in. When I read the Bible, I see writings by a primitive group of people for other primitive people. Stories that gave them a background when they really didn't have one. But that is how all cultures evolved.

Answer 2

Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Science says it all started from a huge cosmic accident. I don't think either is terribly complex but the scriptural answer is far more logical.

Science has yet to explain how something came from nothing ... not to mention all the evolutionary problems following the big bang.

Answer 3

As Einstein said:"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." That basically settles it.

By the way, Einstein didn't believe in a personal God! Here are some quotes by Einstein from "The God Delusion" Chapter one:
-It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
-The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive.

Answer 4

Short answer: Yes. ;-)

Long answer: In spite of the vociferous counter-claims of people on both sides of the fence, the fence itself is an illusion. Science and religion are harmonious if properly understood. There is no inherent contradiction between a scientific description of the material world and the metaphorical and allegorical tales of the world's religious scriptures.

The problem largely lies in the interpretations that people try to put on the scriptures.

Answer 5

The physical sciences and the Bible describe reality on two different levels.


We have to realize that the Bible is filled with metaphor, symbolism, and analogy.

We cannot read it as a literal rendering of science, and in many cases, as literal history (although it has much history in it).





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Answer 6

Science does not contradict the Bible, but complements it as your quoted scripture mentions that the earth is round, the ancients never beleived that the earth was round, but flat......yet the bible writers inspired by holy spirit wrote this fact down thousands of years in advance of them discovering the fact that the earth was infact round

Answer 7

beuty is in the eye of the beholder. For me the Spiritual demension is an add on, or vice versa, either way the truth is richer when viewed from more than one perspective

Answer 8

As an intelligent Christian that is like asking me which of my children I love most.
There is beauty and majesty in both. God made them both.

Answer 9

Beauty in science.

Creativity in the bible.

:)

Answer 10

How cool is that.