Is Bible Compatible or Incompatible With Modern Science?

Question

Intellectual Discourse Only!

Answer 1

Incompatible. The bible asks that you ignore your doubts, it discourages questions and the seeking of answers. The very first thing in the bible is the discouragement of the persuit of knowledge in the form of eating the apple.

It asks that take everything it says on faith despite the fact that it has as much fantasy as a Piers Anthony novel.

Science does the exact opposite. It encourages questions, admits when it doesn't know, seeks the answers, and deals in testable proveable pier reviewed results.

For some reason, some people seem to think that because the bible has some real names and locations, then it must all be real, when that isn't the case.

The bible cannot coexist with modern science because its very nature denies science.

Answer 2

The Bible IS compatible with modern science ... always has been.

It is society - as a whole -
that has willfully chosen to
NOT BE compatible with the Bible.

From Day 1 of Creation,
all humanity has had FREE WILL ... why?
Because the Creator is NOT a dictatorial Creator ...
the Creator is the purest, unconditional love ... period.

Humanity, can be influenced to the Good or the Bad,
and currently
the Bad appears to rank in the majority.

HOWEVER, back to the question at hand ...
every day, week, month and year
we read more and more about
Modern Science AGREEING with Biblical perspectives ...
as IT should!

AMEN!

Answer 3

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't read it here.

People actually believe that the Bible is 'unchanging'?

WTF? The Bible has been changed probably more than any other book in history.

The idea that science 'changes' with evidence is a good thing. Let's say that people believe in spontaneous generation - that mice arise out of piles of dirty shirts and that fish arise out of leaves falling on a stream. This was 'science' back in the middle ages. People believed this. But evidence showed that it wasn't true. Would it be better, then, to stubbornly continue to think that spontaneous generation is how animal spring into being? Of course not.

Why, then, should it be viewed as meritorious to stubbornly continue to believe things that were written thousands of years ago that have been shown again and again to be outdated and, quite often, ridiculous?

The Bible is a fascinating book, to be sure. But to claim that the Bible is The Text For Everything (including science) is utterly absurd. It is a deeply flawed book, in many ways. If God would choose to put down words into a text, I would think that God would choose a text that wasn't as suspect as that which is known as 'The Holy Bible.'

Amen and amen.

Answer 4

Perfectly compatible.
If people had read and believed their Bibles in the Middle Ages they would have seen that the earth is round.
The Bible says the stars are too numerous to be counted. Other cultures had counted a fixed number.
There is nothing in the Bible that negates modern science. There may be some Bible truths that are contrary to some of the modern scientific theories, but modern scientific theories change form day to day.

Answer 5

The Bible is unchanging. On the other hand, science changes when the evidence changes. The statements that coincide between the two are compatible. The statements that don't coincide between the two are incompatible.

Answer 6

The Bible is a selection of middle eastern bronze age tales and legends inspired by the stories that goat herders were telling at night, playing to scare each other. It's a collection of fairy tales. It has nothing to do with science.
Just like Peter Pan does not explain how Boeing 787 flies...

Answer 7

Science and religion deal with different areas. Look to science to understand how the universe works. Look to religion for spiritual guidence. The human soul has little to do with our physical world. And no amount of scientific lerning will tell you how to be a better person. Love thy neighbor has little to do with E=mc2. Both are valid. The problems come when we try to look to one source for every answer. Einstien believed in God. Understanding of science dosn't preclude spirituality. You don't get drumsticks and t-bones from the same animal. Both are mighty tasty.

Answer 8

I'd say highly incompatible. Science deals with provable facts and results. The bible deals completely with myth, fairie tales, and superstition.

Answer 9

I expect that in most cases science and religion do not mash especially in schools that won't allow the teaching of evolution. Religious faith in some areas is detrimental to that section of the population and I believe an attempt to move society back in to the misery of the dark ages.

Answer 10

compatible. If Modern science would accept scientific Biblical principles, such as nothing happens without a trigger, then we'd have advanced further by now.

It's only macro-evolutionary science and the Big Bang theory that contradicts the Bible. Everything else (besides the morals of some scientists) is fine so far.