Does science conflict with the Bible?

Question

can some one explain

Answer 1

The two things are like day and night.... OF COURSE THEY CONFLICT.

[Only if you let it. Science is great at answering questions like "how" or "what".

God covers the "why".]

If you look at the stars at night and wonder why was it all created, then I respond with "why not".

Wrap your mind around that....

Answer 2

Along history, worldwide, religions in general have had conflicts withs science, this situation doesn't only belong the Bible and Christianity, Muslims, Jews or any other. These conflicts have caused the worse wars among men, a good question could be why political conflicts always gave been associated with religions, being their reasons and interests so opposed, the human nature is an enigma, I doubt someone can give you some an acceptable answer. Humanity have been the worse God's trial. An answer could be the anxiety to monopolize the knowledge for slaving the rest of people, but could be others.

Answer 3

Because the bible is so open there's no real way to tell if it does.
Things like human development and what not are evident through out the bible while there are a few things that do tend to conflict with the bible, but its all usually left up to an individuals beliefs and opinions.]
To add...In Genisis, does it fully describe what man looked like when God created them? He made some modifications to create eve... Adam had two sets of ribs...So they obviously didn't look exactly like we do now. All species evolve, there is evolution in the bible. And the stories about Jonah being in a fishes belly, are more than likely not meant to be taken litteraly, its a parable...Jesus told parables all through out the new testament, how else would one get a point across...

Answer 4

No, not really.

There are portions of the Bible which are not consistent with known scientific facts about the universe and how it works - i.e. how organisms originate, how many legs insects have, what critters chew their cud, stuff like that.

But it's only a conflict if you demand that the Bible be an accurate science textbook as well as a metaphorical guide to spiritual salvation and well-being.

Even if insects don't have four legs, that doesn't necessarily invalidate the idea that it's a bad idea to kill other humans, and that everything would be a lot better for everyone if we were actually nice to each for a change.

Answer 5

Science and the bible do not contradict one another. Science is the study of observable data, followed by educated guesses of just what that data tells us.

Some scientists say the earth is heating up. Others say it isn't. Does that mean that science conflicts with science? Of course not. Different people reach different conclusions, even using the same data. That's how human nature is. But with time, scientists eventually come to the "correct", or actual answer - and those answers don't conflict with scripture.

Answer 6

Weeelllll....

Some people think it does. But then, sometimes the bible contradicts itself (ducking the bottles being thrown at me). To be a rational person who is Christian, you really need to accept that the Bible is a story about history and how God came to be known in Europe and the Ancient Near East. You don't necessarily need to take everything literally. In fact, if you did, you'd probably find yourself doing some very strange things.

The problem with modern Christianity is that it takes some parts of the Bible as 100% literal and other's as figurative. As an example, Christians don't follow all of Levitican Law, because Peter and Paul argued and it was decided that Gentiles didn't need to become Jews to be Christian. However, some Christians argue rabidly and use Leviticus as evidence against, as only ONE example, Gay marriage. Who gets to pick and choose which parts are mandetory?

Science isn't always correct. A scientist who starts arguing that everything he says is true is as guilty as a religious person of putting faith above reason. However, as a general rule, science isn't supposed to be a belief system. It's self correcting. If something ends up untrue, eventually science discovers and fixes it. Also, it requires other scientists to be able to duplicate its results before something can be accepted as fact. So while it isn't perfect, you can usually trust that science is more or less correct.

Answer 7

It sure does. The bible is allegory and inspired writing coupled with genealogical history, dating from times when man's understanding of cause-and-effect was severely deficient. Let's tear apart the Deluvian myth, the "Ark". Too many cultures have corollaries to a "Great flood" myth to be strictly coincidental, HOWEVER, take the dimensions of the ark, then load the populations of ALL extant species, on ALL continents, including those that the existence-of was unknown by residents of the middle-east (Including those species made extinct by man) in the proportions given, figure on the food FOR them (And don't forget that large carnivores WILL eat) for not only the 40 days of rain, but the dry-down period that followed, THEN explain how these species FROM the then-unknown continents got BACK TO the lands they couldn't have been gathered-from in the first place, and try to tell me with a straight face that you still believe the biblical account is literally accurate instead of allegorical. THEN explain how the limited gene-pool for man and all the other species didn't fizzle from inbreeding if it WERE literal. Genetics shows us that a gene-pool that small will crash rather quickly and messily. Either way, the biblical literalist is heist by their own petard. Case closed.

Answer 8

no people like to try to keep a belief that man has shown to be silly, like the earth being flat and things like that ,even after the science has proved it by using the vagueness of the Bible to make their point. The conflict is mainly the reading and interpretation. Perception is what is honored to hell with the facts.

Answer 9

no. genesis is a few pages of the Bible which was the result of thousands of years and multiple generations of oral history. there's no reason to think that all human origin can be scientifically explained in these pages.

any Christian who thinks so needs to examine their insecurities about God and science; and any atheist who thinks there's a conflict needs to chillax and find a better a hobby than tearing other people down to build themselves up.

Answer 10

Here, get out a Bible, and compare it to this -

http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/genesis_revisited.html

Then, have a look at this site. You'll see a list of topics on the left side. One topic is "Science and History". It goes through the entire Bible.

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/gen/1.html

This is a more condensed version -

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/science/long.html

Answer 11

If you believe Moses parted the waters and Jesus rose bodily from the dead then you could say it does, or that science hasn't caught up to the Bible yet. In terms of Creation and Evolution there is no conflict.