Uhh? The
Holy Bible of Science?? Come on…the
Bible’s not a science book!!
Isn’t it? Okay, the Bible is not a science textbook but
it is a book of knowledge.
Of course, but you can’t even find the word
‘science’ in the Bible. 
Oh yes you can!…
Daniel and his friends were chosen as “cunning
in knowledge and
understanding science”. On the other hand, the apostle Paul warned
young Timothy to avoid “oppositions
of science falsely so called” - what we call pseudo-science today. (Mmm…should
we waste time debating fools who deny God?) Besides, ‘science’ means: knowledge, from the
Latin: scientia.
Theologians have been
reminding us for centuries: “the Bible is silent as to science” or “Scripture
does not reveal scientific facts”. Have we been
apologizing for God’s Word, instead of upholding it?
In fact, theologian Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution all began with Sir Charles Lyell, the famous 19th century amateur geologist making it his goal to….what?
“Free the science from Moses”...after listening to theology lectures!
So how about we look for any science in the Bible, hey?
Better than that, we’re
going to sit in on a lecture at the University of the Universe and listen to a sickly
mature-age student by the name of Job being stood up….. “Free the science from Moses”...after listening to theology lectures!
So how about we look for any science in the Bible, hey?
O, oh!…look out, here comes the Master of Science like He’s in a twister!....
“Were you there on the construction site at Creation? Have you measured the Earth?”
(Psst…we didn’t know the size of the Earth until the 2nd century BC.)
“Did you set sea levels by raising continents?…or can you command the dawn of a new day…or the blanket of clouds?”…then we hear about…
“…[the earth] is turned as clay to the seal” (describing how the
Earth spins on its axis.)
“Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea” (…recorded thousands of years before scientists
first discovered ‘black smokers’ in 1977, 2,500 metres under the Pacific Ocean,
in the Galapagos Rift.)
“How does light travel? …or where did it come
from before the sun was created?”
“Job, I suppose you know because you were alive then – you’re so old!”
“Job, I suppose you know because you were alive then – you’re so old!”
“Have you entered into the treasuries of the snow?” (Using microscopes, we now know that every snow crystal is unique…but they are absent in man-made snow!)
(Eventually Sir Isaac Newton, ‘the father of modern science’, found out with his prism in 1704 AD.)
Cumulonimbus clouds storing “treasuries of the hail”, bring also the “overflowing of waters”, lightning and
thunder. (Scientists now know that lightning with up to 100 million volts, splits
the nitrogen molecules to form nitrate compounds that fertilize the soil “to cause the bud of the tender herb to
spring forth” and this is occurring about 1800 times around the Earth –
all the time!)
Water miraculously expands
when cooled below 4 degrees C, causing it to be “hid as with a stone and the face of the deep is frozen”. (If sea-ice failed to float, life on Earth
would be extinguished.)
“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands
of Orion?” (…proved accurate, of
course, by astronomers last century.)
“Canst thou bring forth the Mazzaroth in its season?” (Forget astrology. Astronomers have known since antiquity that the sun spends one month in front of each of the 12 constellations of the Zodiac.)
“Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?” (Astronomers
know that the star Arcturus is the brightest star north of the ecliptic line.
Mythology seems to have corrupted this with ‘the Bear and her cubs’.)
Perhaps that’s enough
from the Holy Bible of Science for today’s lecture …Creation, geology, oceanography,
meteorology, hydrology, astrophysics and wrapping up with some stunning astronomy! Photo credit: osa-opn.org
