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So if all science is wrong if it is not mentioned in the bible,


or if it contradicts the bible, what about the theory of relativity?

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Yeah, I thought that was a little silly, too. I am a born-again Christian and fully believe the Bible is God's Word to man but I'll be the first to admit that it's not a science book. It was never intended to be. It's kind of silly to think that we could somehow get the periodic table of the elements, for instance, from the bible.

No, the bible is God revealing Himself to man, but if we try to use that as our authority for SCIENCE, we're going to severely limit ourselves in what we can study and discover.

Fredd

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What about the theory of relativity? What part of it contradicts the Bible?

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I assume that mitch45 is refering to Russel's lecture to his class. Russel wasn't saying that science is wrong if it isn't mentioned in the Bible. He was saying that first you need to start with a right interpretation of the Bible. Since the Bible is God's Word, and since God knows everything and can lie, we KNOW for sure that everything in the Bible is true. However, scientific theories change all the time, since we're human and imperfect; we don't know everything. Therefore, if there is any 'seemingly' contradiction between 'science' and the Bible, the Bible must take precedence. Once again, true, observational science like technology, and Newton's three laws of motions, and yes, even the theory of relativity will never contradict the Bible.

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The people that wrote the Bible thought the world was flat.

How can the Bible be the word of god when MANKIND wrote it?
Mankind by its nature is imperfect. How could we produce a perfect word of God. How many women wrote passages in the bible (I am honestly curious)? I would bet that men outnumber the women by a fair degree.
Why then did God choose to have men communicate his message? Why rule out half the population from contributing?
Would you like to know why? Because it was created by MEN not GOD.

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There is too much historical and scientific inaccuracies in the Bible for it to be the work of ''God''...unless Elohim isn't particularly bright.

"Namu-myoho-renge-kyo"

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What about the biblical assertion that pi equals three?

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How many decimals would be acceptable - since there are an infinite amount. "3" was pretty much what was measurable at the time.

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Resurrecting this dead post.

Albi - The bible mentions that the earth is round (Isaiah 40:21-22 and others). So, if you are serious that the writers thought the earth was flat, that gives support for divine inspiration.

kshsj777 - in Russell's lecture he says, "my advice to any scientist would be to make sure his findings always agree with scripture", or something like that. But you can't find biblical support for most scientific discoveries. "oh, i think water freezes at 32 degrees fahrenheit but I'd better check that with scripture". Good luck. No, i like the film but it missed the mark there.

Makkabee - Isn't Pi about 3?? I could understand your argument if they said that pi was 47, but 3 makes sense. If you say you're 5 feet 7 and you're actually 5 feet 7 and 1 millimeter, are you wrong or are you just trying to be succinct?

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The bible describes a CIRCULAR earth, not a SPHERICAL one. Plates and frisbees are round, but they are not spheres.

The bible describes nothing scientific that would not have been obvious to anyone living in that era.

For example, it's obvious to anyone, especially someone who lives in a desert, that the earth has a circular edge. It's equally obvious that the earth is also flat. Also obvious: the sun and moon both travel around the flat disc of the earth.

It's not at all obvious that the earth is actually a ball floating through space, spinning as it travels around the sun.

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If you even began to realize how ignorant and degenerate people are today, including "experts" and "scientists," you'd know that only mentally incompetent harlots are deluded enough to imagine the modern deranged religion of pseudo-science prostitution (like the fraud of anthropocentric global warming vs the proven reality of flat temps for a decade) headed by proven egotistical lunatics like Dawkins is even competent enough to exist, much less compete with the Bible. It only exists because, as in Darwin's day that got the ball rolling, today's perverts want to stick poles in holes, irrespective of the pole or the hole, human, animal or otherwise, and have orgasm, and they're in complete denial of their vain attempt to exclude God from the picture and how they will have to give Him an account in the Judgment. See www.creation.com for true science like creationist NASA head Von Braun that got us to the moon vs the evolution fraud that succeeded him by the help of which we're no longer in space. See just one of countless examples of why the proven promotion of incompetence by the corrupt scientism religion due to its lawless, fascist censorship of the true science of creationists at http://creation.com/neptune-monument-to-creation as well as
the true story of who really opposed Galileo vs the lies of corrupt, self-serving modern revisionist history's coverup of evolutionists by falsely fingering "the catholic church":
http://creation.com/the-galileo-twist

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Science doesn't know all of the answers yet. That's why there are still scientists.

"Chaplin, Keaton, Gilligan. The great ones make it look so easy." - ALF

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So if all science is wrong if it is not mentioned in the bible,


Is that actually what the film says? I haven't seen the film for many years so I could be wrong, but I believe he said something like science is wrong if it contradicts the Bible, not that science is wrong it is "not mentioned" in the Bible.

In other words, the thread title/OP appear to be pulling a scope shift strawman.

"Science creates fictions to explain facts" - Gilman

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