The Bible and Science

“Praise him, you highest heaven and the water above the sky. Let them praise the name of the Lord because they were created by his command. He set them in their places forever and ever. He made it a law that no one can break.” (Psalm 148:4-6)

“Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity.” ― Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler was a famous German mathematician and key figure of the scientific revolution and physics  of the 1600's.A man, who saw in science, the glory of God. Yet, the Bible isn't meant to be a scientific textbook, and you don't study the Bible to build a rocket. It does not use scientific language, yet it never gives bad science! In fact, it is rather fascinating at the things the Bible describes from thousands of years ago, that men are just discovering today.

For example:

- For thousands of years, people believed that Earth was flat. But God said 2,600 years ago in Isaiah 40:22 that God is enthroned above the SPHERE of Earth.

- For thousands of years, people believed that the number of stars were finite. But Jeremiah 33:22 says the number of stars can’t be counted.

The book of Leviticus  describes the value of blood. (Lev.17:11) ‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’ It carries water and nourishment to every cell, maintains the body’s temperature, and removes the waste material of the body’s cells. The blood also carries oxygen from the lungs throughout the body. In 1616, William Harvey discovered that blood circulation is the key factor in physical life.

The Bible describes biogenesis (the development of living organisms from other living organisms) and the stability of each kind of living organism. Gen.1:11,12,21,25 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good... So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.  The phrase “according to its kind” occurs repeatedly, stressing the reproductive integrity of each kind of animal and plant. Today we know this occurs because all of these reproductive systems are programmed by their genetic codes.

In 1861, during evolution's climb, a very famous book came out called “Fifty-one Incontrovertible Proofs that the Bible is Scientifically Inaccurate.” Yet today, you can’t find a single scientist that would agree with any one of those incontrovertible facts. They’ve all been disproved by science. Why?  Because the Bible reminds us, “Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, maker of heaven and earth, the seas and everything in them, forever the guardian of truth.." Psa.146:5,6  The second law of thermodynamics works because it was true and made by God.  Truth does not change.

Someone may have told you at some point that the Bible isn’t scientifically accurate. That person is wrong. Either they have never studied the Bible or never studied science. God sets up the laws of science; he made sure that his Word doesn’t contradict those laws.

Jim