That tacky subject, that seems to divide Christians, Americans, scientists, and basically the whole world in two camps. Woe to you if you are a member of the other camp, then either you’re ridiculed by people who think science has the answer to everything, or you’re labelled as an unbeliever, a heretic and your lack of faith will have you being sent straight to hell. Well I happen to believe science does not hold the answer to everything (and in all honesty I think it never fully will), but it allows us ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ on our environment. We discover molecules, then atoms, and then quarks, anti-quarks, leptons, anti-leptons and bosons, and even then start to hypothesize about little vibrating strings in 11 dimensions. On the other hand we peer into the skies and discover redshift, black holes and what not and hypothesize about dark matter, the universe being infinite through loop in space/time etc etc. Fascinating stuff, and most of it is probably very likely to be ‘true’ (notice the quotes). That is, probably very likely to be a valid description of our observations, given our God-given human senses.
I also believe that a lot of what science discovers with regards to the development of organic life on this beautiful plant is probably ‘true’. Although I believe that there still a lot of holes in our knowledge with regards to this development, and nowadays too many scientists (both Christian and atheist) are pushing an agenda in their theories, It seems, at this moment in time, that the evolution theory is a very likely theory, i.e. there are not many scientific alternatives. Why would this be sacrilege? Especially if it were true and therefore how God chose to do things? On the other hand, science is continuously in motion. What is regarded is an established theory can be abolished tomorrow. Perhaps the truth is far more complex than we can ever know and perhaps the evolution theory is completely missing the point. Who knows.
If I read the book of Genesis, should I expect a detailed description of matter and anti-matter? An in-depth explanation of in how many dimensions snares are vibrating? With Hebrew words that didn’t even exist back then? Or does the Bible only concern itself with the continuing story of the relationship between God and his creation? And is there enough symbolism in there to hint at certain ‘scientific’ facts, whilst not taking away the attention from the real message? When I read Genesis, I read of a certain order of creation. Which (I might be wrong here) is the first time a creation story does mention an order that comes close to what science now starts to discover almost 3000 years later.
Interesting…
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