In this post, we will begin to explore THE SCIENTIFIC
PROOF of the Bible’s accuracy. Science
and the Bible are, very often, pitted against each other—as though they are
enemies. How can this be, since God is
the Author of both? God is Truth and all
that is true comes from God. True
Christian faith is not anti-science, and proven science is not anti-faith,
since both are grounded in fact.
Now, here is a difference—the Bible is set, fixed, and
final—the complete revelation of God to which nothing can be added or
subtracted in terms of what we need to know about God and how to have eternal
life in Him—to serve and glorify Him. The
Bible doesn’t tell us all we want to know, or all we could know, even all we
will know, but it gives us all we need to know for life here and for the hereafter. Science ever changes—new discoveries are made
and knowledge increases. Old ideas are
discarded or amended. Some have
estimated that in the library of the Louvre in Paris, France, there are at
least 3and ½ miles of science books that are obsolete. No one reads a word of them. The rate at which science and technology are
expanding is exponential—so that the science textbook used this year will be
outdated perhaps before the year is out!
Consider once more a vital truth: although the Bible
is not a science textbook, the science expressed in the text is
remarkable. It was light years ahead of
its day, and where it touches on the realm of science the Word of God is
accurate.
For instance, in Acts
7:22, we are told that Moses was learned in all of the science of the Egyptians.
…He knew all the latest scientific fads, he was abreast with all the latest
scientific discoveries of his day. These
Egyptians were brilliant people [witness their construction of the pyramids,
DT]. …Those Egyptian scientists believed…that this earth was hatched out of a
great cosmic egg, an egg that had wings and was flying around through space. …That
was the latest scientific theory among those who taught in the days of Moses.
So I turn over here to
the Word of God expecting to read about that flying egg, for after all, Moses
was learned in all the science of the Egyptians. But I find nothing at all about an enormous
hatchery. Instead of that, I read of
creation in the sublimest words that man could pen: “In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth.”
Those Egyptians also had
a science of astronomy. They believed
that the sun was the reflection of the light on the earth, and that the earth
was the center of this universe, but in Genesis I find that Moses reversed the
order—it is the sun that gives light to the earth.
The Egyptians had a
science of anthropology. They were naïve
evolutionists. They believed that
mankind sprang from little white worms that they found in the slime and ooze
and mud of the alluvial deposit after the Nile’s annual overflow. …The
scientists of Moses’ day with their theory of evolution from worms were not far
behind those today who would have you believe that your remote ancestors were
fleabitten apes hanging by their tails in a primeval jungle. I read in the Bible that Moses was learned in
all the science of the Egyptians. But he
says nothing about those little white worms and how we were descended from
them. Instead, he writes in the most
majestic language in human speech: “And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness.” (W.A. Criswell, “The
Bible for Today’s World, pp.18-19)
This introduces our topic. In future posts, we will roll out evidence after
evidence of science that underscores the trustworthiness of the Bible.
No comments:
Post a Comment