Science vs The Bible

Talk about opening a can of worms. This is a massive conversation.  Below you will find several resources if you’d like to take a deep dive on this topic. We just want to take 5 minutes to skim the surface of this, but also affirm Psalms 24:12 “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for He founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.” God invented science. Therefore, science and the Bible are not at odds with each other because God wrote them both! We want to take a moment to ask the question: Can we trust the first sentence in the Bible? “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Can we trust the Bible?

There’s lots of ways to answer this question but let’s do it by talking about rabbit pee (You read that right!) Leviticus 11:6. God commands his people not to eat rabbits. Which would have been counter cultural at the time. Fast forward 4,000+ years, in the mid to late 1800s we discovered germs, bacteria, and other things that you can’t see. If we knew about germs during the black plague 1/3 of Europe wouldn’t have died, but we just found out 150 years ago. In the middle of these discoveries, we also found out about the diseases they cause. One disease specifically is called Tularemia. It is an infectious disease that attacks the skin, eyes and lungs. 4,000 years ago Tularemia was lethal and infected the whole community. I’ll give you one guess as to one of the carriers of Tularemia?? Bingo… Rabbits, and they excrete it in their pee…. In a society that hunted animals by tracking their excrement. In a barefoot/shoeless world God’s people would have undoubtedly contracted it through their feet. How is that in the Bible? How was that written 4,000+ years before we discovered germs. If the Bible is just a man-made fable full of lies how could a guy named Moses 4,000 years ago look at rabbits when the rest of the world is eating them and say, “You know, I think we should stay away from those.” That’s impossible. The only way that Leviticus 11 can be in the bible 4-5 thousand years before we discover germs is if God wrote it. If all scripture is God breathed, and if God said it, then we can trust it.

What the Bible did NOT say

The Bible does not seem concerned with how God made it, just that He did make it. Did God write parts of what we call “evolution” into creation? Of course! Is there debate about how old the earth actually is? Yes!  These are questions the Bible wasn’t concerned with answering. There are tons of theories that have to do with how old the earth is: Young earth? Old earth? Young/mature earth? Depending on where you fall on that debate could help you reconcile some of what we read in genesis with the science we learned in high school. The point is GOD MADE IT! The point is NOT, how he made it.

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