Topic: Evolution
Quote: Religious faith, by definition, is a "jump in the dark" and there is really little\n(if any) common intellectual ground on which Creationism and Scientific\nMaterialism can meet. In principle, given adequate evidence etc., there is\nnothing in the material world that cannot be explained by Science. But\nsomeone who has, so to speak, already jumped into the dark cannot see \nthis.\nThe most interesting questions that a supernatural account of human life \ncan raise are concerned with the evolution of law, morality, social conventions,\naesthetic sensibility and such like.
Response: This is a statement written by someone who obviously has not read scripture. One of the most astonising "proofs" if you will, that the Bible is of supernatural origin, is predictive prophecy. Science cannot, as you claim, "explain" everything, and it has no natural explanation for the \npredictions made in scripture. How can science explain through statistical probablity the over 600 prophecies in Biblical writings that have come to pass? Also, how can it explain how supposedly uneducated people (uneducated in the ways of modern science) wrote about astronomy as if they knew about the universe as we do today. How could they have described the hydrological cycle as we have only come to know it recently?Ecclesiastes 1:6\nThe wind goes toward the south,\nAnd turns around to the north;\nThe wind whirls about continually,\nAnd comes again on its circuit.  \nHow did they know that the earth "hangs on nothing" when the accepted norm of the day did not even accept that possibility?\nJob 26:7\nHe stretches out the north over empty space;\nHe hangs the earth on nothing.  \nHow did they know that the "vapors" of the earth rise to create moisture, that is seeded by lightning with nitrogen and then falls as rain to fertilze the soil?\nJeremiah 10:13\nWhen He utters His voice,\nThere is a multitude of waters in the heavens:\n\xe2\x80\x9cAnd He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.\nHe makes lightning for the rain,\nHe brings the wind out of His treasuries.\xe2\x80\x9d  \nHydrothermal vents[4] are described in two books of the Bible written before 1400BC\xe2\x80\x94more than 3,000 years before their discovery by science.\nGenesis 7:11\nIn the six hundredth year of Noah\xe2\x80\x99s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.  \nEven though the Bible is not a scientific text book and doesn\'t purport to be, nowhere is it scientifically inaccurate. In addition, many of the scientific ideas you are so impressed with are nothing new to the Bible. It was speaking of these things long before modern science spoke of them.\nThe story goes "They (scientists) are slowly working their way to the mountain\'s peak painstakingly measuring and analyzing every step that they take. After many years of research, they finally arrive at the top of the mountain, scale over its leading edge, only to find a group of theologians sitting there with the answers all along."
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