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Science does not conflict with the bible, but define science properly first. The bible is history. Science should be divided into “exact science” and “speculative science.” The latter is more like philosophy, and bible believers can discourse with philosophers about the world’s origin. However, when “speculative science” claims to be “exact science” &,therefore, absolute truth, when it’s not, that’s when conflict occurs.
Your religion determines your view of reality; it affects everything about your world & how you see it. Whether we create our own from our own perspective or that religious perspective is given to us by someone else, we end up shaping our reality around it because we have decided it is the reality behind our reality, so to speak.
Science Was Born of Christianity
Jaki explained that while Newton’s laws of motion could explain quantitative data, numbers could not place meaning on that data. Therefore, reasoned discourse “stands at the beginning and at the end of quantities, embedding science within it. Exact science depends on reasoned discourse.” Stacy Trasancos, Science Was Born of Christianity: The Teaching of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki (Click link above for Stacey Trasancos’ book). Jaki took to task those who advocated Scientism by pointing out the difference between science & religion:
Science Was Born of Christianity
Jaki (click link below for Jaki book, The Savior of Science) was a relentless student of the history of science, and he analyzed just about every culture in history that has attempted science. His unique contribution to the history of science is his detailed explanation as to why “modern science” developed in Western, Christian Europe as opposed to anywhere else. No matter the genius of their scientists, every other culture’s scientific development was “stillborn.” And Jaki discovered a religio-cultural explanation for that historical fact. (Click link below for Jaki book.)
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This issue is critical to the veracity of the scriptures. If poetry was God’s purpose in inspiring the writer, whom we assume was Moses, then we’ve lost much of the distinction between the biblical account and the myths of other religions. Any religion can contend that its view of the origin of the universe is a “spiritual” or allegorical or “poetic” view. The believer in the bible claims that his book, the bible, is not a myth but contains the inerrant statement as to the true Creator God. If we give up that contention and make Genesis 1 another “poetic” account, then we have given up the key argument that Jesus Christ is the only saving name under heaven. Once the facts of Genesis are acknowledged as mere allegory, then secular science fills the gap with process as the actual and true history of what happened. Process means God didn’t really create instantaneously out of nothing the life and substance of the earth. God had a part in the process; perhaps he initiated it, but the rest was chance mutation and erosion. The Creator God of the bible becomes something other than the One who speaks and matter comes to be. What about Psalm 104? If Jesus’ Father was not the biblical Creator who spoke matter out of nothing based on His word, then it’s quite a leap to assert that Christ could speak miracles into the historical, time-based, physical world.
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Genesis is history, not science. Genesis 1 says that Adam was created the sixth day according to Genesis 1. God rested the seventh day. Does it make any sense that God would leave Adam in the dark about the creation time period? There are two reasons in the text that show that Adam would have known the time period – the Sabbath day and Eve.
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Science Was Born of Christianity
Father Stanley Jaki defined exact science this way: “Exact science is the quantitative study of the quantitative aspects of objects in motion.” Click link above to get Stacey Trasancos’ book, Science was Born of Christianity: The Teaching of Fr. Stanley Jaki. This definition clearly distinguishes modern science from speculative philosophy, theology, and reasoned discourse. It is also an important factor in distinguishing modern science from ancient science, something Jaki studied exhaustively.
Science Was Born of Christianity
Science does not conflict with the bible, but define science properly first. The bible is history. Science should be divided into “exact science” (Click link above for Stacey Trasancos’ book, Science was Born of Christianity: TheTeaching of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki) and “speculative science.” The latter is more like philosophy, and bible believers can discourse with philosophers about the world’s origin. However, when “speculative science” claims to be “exact science” (Click link above) &, therefore, absolute truth, when it’s not, that’s when conflict occurs.
