What would the world be like?
2007-05-13 17:08:27 · 10 answers · asked by KEVIN D 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It was! It was filled with the science of its day. If it had been filled with our understanding of physics, chemistry and mathematics, they would have burned it as lunatic ravings. (Come to think of it, we wouldn't know whether or not that's exactly what happened.)
2007-05-13 17:39:50 · answer #1 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if it was filled with information about atoms, about galaxies and the nature of the cosmos, about hurricane formations and evolutionary theory, about the nature of gravity and of complex mathematics, well... I guess we would all believe in God wouldn't we?
Because only a divine creator would have known so much about the universe and written it down at a time when civilization was not advanced enough to know about any of those.
Scientists, using the scientific method, would reject all previous knowledge and try to work from scratch. But if their results kept pointing to the fact that this ancient book written at a time when the most advanced technology was the plow had all their results already written, then it would be obvious that either a God, an intelligent extraterrestrial lifeform, or a time traveller would have given man this knowledge.
Too bad an omniscient God didn't know that something like that would prove his existence and instead decided the Bible should be filled with terra-centric, flat-earther philosophies -_-
2007-05-13 17:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does have those things. Read about the arc of Noah. The measurements and how he was to create the arc is all mathematics.
The miracles that God performed in Egypt.......they all have great scientific explanations that can show how those miracles were created by God using natural occurances that continue to happen on Earth. Like when the water opened up.
I think you could find the shows that talk about these things on History channel or Discovery. Check their websites for the shows and see if you can buy them or watch them on tv.
The bible has alot of science and physics and mathematics, why not? All of this was created by God anyways. Read the Old Testament and you can find all of this. You can also find good scientific explanations of miracles performed in the Bible if you just did research.
The thing is about people that believe in the Bible, is that they do not care how these things happened. They don't even need proof that it did. They just believe. That is why these subjects are not brought up alot in Christianity but also if you watch Christian television shows like TBN at night time, they have educational science and history shows that give great explanations for many of the stories in the Bible.
2007-05-13 17:26:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible was penned centuries before mankind had such understanding, so your question can not be entertained rationally. Such a book would have been looked upon as the work of demons or Satan.
The adoption of science has been a slow, systematic replacement of superstition and nonsense by empirical evidence and fact. It could not have happened in any way other than the way it did. We have thousands of books that offer logical explanations for the same supernatural claims made in the bible, and people still reject them in favor of the nonsense.
It's not just about presenting facts. The Bible's power is its promise of reward, and threat of punishment. Science simply cannot allay or invoke fear in this fashion.
2007-05-13 17:22:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bronze age middle eastern goat herders that inspired the tales and legends of the bible were not scientist dear.
Science does not come as a revelation. It's the result of hard work and research.
2007-05-14 00:48:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaiah 40:22
There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth...
Here circle is translated from 'chugh', which can also mean 'sphere'.
Job 26:7
...Hanging the earth upon nothing
So both scriptures together, about 3000 -3500 years ago, point out that the earth is a sphere which is suspended in nothing.
2007-05-13 17:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who knows. The Bible knows almost nothing whatever of science, so any supposition of what things would be like if it did is totally moot.
2007-05-13 17:21:19 · answer #7 · answered by U-98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We would be E= mc 2 . Where E= everyone; m = me ;(myself) and c = Christ 2 = Christ's second Return to this earth. If there were no Bible, there would be no God; therefore, human kind would be irrelevant .
2007-05-13 17:20:45 · answer #8 · answered by guraqt2me 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religious con-men would find another way to steal from the ignorant.
2007-05-13 17:13:44 · answer #9 · answered by kappalokka 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well,the atheists would be the dumb ones then,they couldn't understand what was in the bible.
2007-05-13 17:30:47 · answer #10 · answered by otterscantdance 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋