Does the Bible contradict science? Most people would say yes because of the miracles. However, I find it interesting that people are very quick to accept a god but not that a god would be able to do anything after making everything. If this god made everything and wrote a book about it, do you think that he would lie or be wrong about how he did it? So, if his book is honest and true then every scientific fact in it should be accurate. Let’s take a look shall we?
Universal Categories Herbert Spensor said there were five categories that everything in the universe could be put under. He listed them in the order of time, force, action, space, and matter. Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning (TIME) God (FORCE) created (ACTION) the heavens (Space) and the earth (MATTER). Thermodynamics -Law of the Conservation of Energy - states that energy can be transformed (changed from one form to another), but cannot be created or destroyed. Ecclesiastes 1:9 That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done,
-Law of the Conservation of Mass - This law says that the total amount of mass does not change---mass is not created from nothing or destroyed. And there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. Hydrology -Irrigation Isaiah 55:10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, -Water Cycle Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again. Job 36:27-28 For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist, Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man. -Evaporation Psalm 33:7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses. Wind Currents Ecclesiastes 1:6 The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit. Astronomy Psalm 103:11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; (At the time the heavens/sky was thought to be a physical canopy, not a vast space.) Job 22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are! (How did Job know that the stars were far away?) 1 Corinthians 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. (Every star in the universe is as unique as humans are from each other. How did Paul know that?) -Moon Job 25:5 If even the moon does not shine, And the stars are not pure in His sight, (The ancients thought the moon did shine on its own and thought it was farther away because of its dimness.) Geology -Geophysics Isaiah 40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, Measured heaven with a span And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales And the hills in a balance? (If the Earth wasn’t perfectly balanced we wouldn’t be here to know it.) -Geodesy Isaiah 40:22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. (We all know that the sphere is circular, a child recognizes this. How did Isaiah know the Earth was too?) -Axis and Poles Job 38:13-14 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it? It takes on form like clay under a seal, And stands out like a garment. (The ends of the Earth are the poles and it turns like clay under a seal. The Earth rotates on and axis that runs through the poles. How interesting.) Outer Space Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing. (How did Job know that there was nothing holding the earth up?) There is so much more that can be shown but I think this makes it clear enough that God did write the Bible. After all, who would know how he created things better than He. |