Are the scriptures more reliable than science?

Question

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Answer 1

Well --- let's see --- let's take all the parts of scripture that can be tested and verified in controlled experiments ...

Ok, never mind ...

Answer 2

Reliable no. The scriptures aren't designed to be a detailed instruction manual for doing ALL things, just some things.

Let's take one as an example.

Jesus put his hands on a man who was dead and restored his life.

That was written, DOCUMENTED, 1700 years ago or LATER.

DOCUMENTED

It's only been in the last 60 years Science has learned to do this with CPR, which is putting your hands on a dead person and restoring life.

The Bible doesn't DOCUMENT the EXACT PROCESS

Indeed, JEsus may have used an even BETTER process.

But the fact remains that this was written 1700 years ago by a more primitive mindset who may NOT have paid attention to all the fine details of what Jesus did.

So it is NOT a text book in resurrecting the dead, but it is documentary evidence 1700 years old that MAN can restore life with the touch of hands.

SCIENCE shows this now to be true.

One day Science may show us how to walk on water.

It's NOT an impossiblity.

Science is about teaching us EXACT PROCESSES

The Bible simply describes things in rudimentary terms.

Answer 3

Yes. The 66 books are one Bible. One of the many remarkable things about it is all 66 books agree with each other. In fact, that is how one arrives at a proper understanding of it, not leaning upon our own understanding of one part, but letting it interpret itself.

It doesn't have studies every few months conflicting with the last one done. It doesn't guess for hypothesis. The Author and writers were there for most of the things stated in the Bible. That is much better than 2,000 years later guessing what happened.

Most people just try to degrade the Bible. How about the possibility the Bible's science is on a higher level than currently available to men? Certainly man of 100 years ago would regard 21st century science as miracles. God is simply much more advanced than any man.

Answer 4

This is like asking if the instructions for Monopoly are more reliable than an apple pie recipe. They're two completely separate things.

If you take them out of context and misapply their intended use, neither becomes "reliable". Religious scripture isn't made for giving answers about objective experiences in physical world, and likewise it's not science's job to give people individual "meaning", codes of conduct, etc.

Answer 5

They are if you're willing to throw common-sense and reason out the window. If one is so inclined to believe something exists because it presents itself as unfathomable. Science doesn't have all the answers but it has provided many of them. The word "creation" refers to not only the so-called "theory", but to the actual book. A fictional account written with what knowledge was available at the time, and most importantly before space travel was possible. We have gone beyond the clouds and have seen that there was no heaven.

Answer 6

Science and the Bible do not contradict each other. The problem lies in some people's INTERPRETATION of science. Two people can look at the same thing and come away with two different explanations for how it got that way. The problem is when one of those people starts calling his interpretation "fact" and starts forcing it down the throats of schoolchildren.

Answer 7

Science has no way of gaging the reliability of spiritual truth.
God has left the world in the dark to such matters except as He discloses what He pleases.

Answer 8

Far from it. Religion is stuck with the beliefs of ancient people whose highest intellect told them that the Earth was flat. Most of their knowledge has become obsolete. Would you trust your medical treatment to ancient beliefs? Science continues to discover new knowledge, it has the ability to admit to making mistakes, improve and update itself. That's how life saving medicines are discovered. Imagine yourself still having to believe that the Earth was flat.

Answer 9

No. The scriptures don't get peer review; the governing body gets really defensive whenever something is challenges; and they are consider "closed" by many.

Answer 10

Depends on what you are looking for. I wouldn't use the bible to predict the weather. Some things were validated in the bible before science figured them out.