Why do scientists need proof of the Bibles validity?

Question

I enjoy watching history being dug up. But most shows are always trying to disprove the Bible, stating that no evidence is found to prove it is real. I believe that God wants man to simply have faith that he exists.

Answer 1

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/world/africa/03exodus.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1175832000&en=21e09d79d84afb0d&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin

Answer 2

First of all, I hope you do not rely on television shows to learn about history and archaeology.

Second, I am a scientist and I do not know any scientist who cares about trying to disprove any religious books, so I'm very skeptical of your claim. Can you name some of these scientists who, you say, "need proof of the Bible's validity"? If they exist, can you give me email addresses so I can check with them?

Next, what do you mean by "the Bible's validity"? It seems to work pretty well as a sourcebook for religious purposes. What more do you want from it? I hope you do not think it serves as a good luck charm or a talisman. It has no magic properties.

You refer to God's desire for your faith that he exists. Really, if the creator of the universe exists as a personality, do you imagine that your belief or disbelief in his existence causes him to lose sleep at nights? Surely he is not that small-minded. He doesn't need anything you or I have to offer him.

Finally, when you say "the" Bible, I suppose you mean the Christian bible - the Torah plus the Writings and the Prophets and the Songs - plus the New Testament. Fair enough. And do you recognize that your taking this one particular Bible as "the" Bible is just an accident of your being born into a culture where that belief is assumed? Do you not know that there are many Bibles and holy books?

Do you not know how much of the Christian Bible is copied from the Avestas of Persian Zoroastrianism? Do you know that the Ten Commandments are pretty much cribbed from the Egyptian Book of the Dead? Have you ever read the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to see where the Great Flood story comes from? Do you know that the account of baby Moses being found in the Nile is just a knockoff of the Akkadian story of Sargon found in the Euphrates?

If the Bible is important to your faith, why so? Real faith does not depend on any book. Especially a book not established as canonical until centuries after Jesus Christ lived.

It is a blatant fallacy of Protestantism to follow Martin Luther's mistaken dictum *sola scriptura*. He was wrong. The preservation and transmission of the truths of Christianity is carried on by the church, not by the Bible. The basis of Christianity is threefold: scripture, tradition and reason. So *sola scriptura* just doesn't cut it.

Answer 3

You are wrong scientist do not try to disprove the bible. Scientists only try to prove factual truth. If anything is disproved by factual truth which scientist are looking for then so be it. When will you fanatics quit whining about scientist. They are not interested in proving anything about your bible one way or the other. Don't include Atheists as scientist. Some scientist are Atheists but Atheists are not necessarily scientist. Atheists has pretty well ripped any validity of the Holy Bible asunder through truth and logic.

Answer 4

Faith is the basis of Christianity - it's the only way that you can follow a life based on something that you can't see with your own two eyes.

However, science is almost the opposite of religion - it's based on facts, evidence, proof that something exists. They are basically showing that if there is a God, he hasn't left hard, physical proof that he exists. Therefore, the entire religion is based on faith, which is simply a point that they have proven time and again.

Answer 5

The Bible has been proved to be neither scientifically nor traditionally precise, opposite to many claims. the occasion here supply of Isaiah is tremendously wealthy. not in common terms did the classic Greeks recognize the Earth strengthen right into a sphere, they had measured its diameter. It strengthen into Christianity that suppressed this records (and mockingly Islam that saved Greek coaching) for hundreds of years. yet extra hectic is the historic inaccuracy. that's now tremendously sparkling from archaeology that even such sign activities because of the fact the Exodus did not surely take place (even orthodox Jewish pupils admit this). it truly isn't any undesirable element in a manner - the Exodus strengthen into an atrocity some distance worse than the in demand Holocasut, with the Jews ordered to dedicate repeated acts of entire genocide to scouse borrow land from its rightful vendors.

Answer 6

I don't think Scientists generally want to or don't
want to specifically disprove God.

They are naturally curious, and people do keep
asking them to have opinions.

The best you can do is report the facts as you
find them, and use those facts to bolster or
knock down theories.

For every show you see trying to disprove the
Bible, there is another trying to prove it. Remember
when they were showing indentations on Mt. Ararat
and saying that was where Noah's ark ended up?

It makes for good TV, but not good science.

Ultimately, you cannot disprove the existance of
God by his/her/its semantic definition. And of course,
any scientist worth his salt, when confronted by God
would ask "OK, but what are YOU made of?"

Militant agnostic: I don't know and NEITHER DO YOU.

Answer 7

You may believe that if you please, but (a) it has no foundation in evidence, and (b) is provably useless. In fact, there is conclusive proof that the bible is not valid; I could name you half a dozen tales from Genesis alone that are known to be false. No rational person has faith in anything: faith is the belief in something without evidence, or in the face of contrary evidence, and is not logical. The defining characteristic of h. Sapiens is the ability to use logic; if you deliberately forego that ability, you are no better than an animal.

Answer 8

Many politically and power-driven Christians are trying to force their beliefs into education and society as viable, scientific answers for humanity. If this wasn't happening, I'm not sure the reaction of trying to disprove the Bible would be as prevalent.

Also, there are MANY scientists who are trying to prove that Christ existed and that the events of the Bible were factual. Just depends where you look.

Answer 9

God has given all mankind--not just scientists--the ability to explore his surroundings and profit from them. Part of that involves scientific proof.

A hunter does not simply pray that deer will appear, but goes out and investigates their habits. A farmer doesn't simply cling to faith that his crops will come up, but instead conducts controlled experiments, trying this much water with this sort of plant and that sort of soil with another, and won't accept any result without reasonable, logical proof.

It is natural that such scientific curiosity extends to all aspects of our lives, for it is what enables us to survive without the natural instincts and abilities that God has given to his other creatures. There's no evidence whatsoever that God wishes us to do anything but the sort of scientific research that we've been doing all along. His words and advice and power can withstand the worst skepticism.

The Bible is a historical document, and while there are parts of it which claim to be the word of God, there are lots of other parts of it which are the words of men, and it says so. It's perfectly reasonable for us to investigate these, and there are no strictures in Scripture that suggest that we should not.

The Lord is, of course, giving us good advice in Exodus 33:20 when he advises us not to try to visualize Him, and I'm afraid that Christians spend far too much time trying to do just that.

But as far as digging for fossils; the Lord must want us to believe in evolution, because He set up the evidence so perfectly. It was a perfectly good way to create the earth, and we're hardly in a position to criticize Him for that.

Answer 10

Ignorance is bliss I guess. Many people do not share your blind faith. There is no proof to the validity of the bible. The bible is a collection of parables much the same as ancient Greek and Roman mythology, It truth it is nothing more than christian mythology.

Answer 11

Some people are wired to want the facts, and those type of people typically become scientists. Why wouldn't they be curious about the facts around the Bible's origins?

Some people are good to go with the feelings, and are tired of minute arguments about how to interpret facts. Truth is found more in experience than objective facts, and so who cares?