Allen writes
>I want to bring up a topic for discussion.
>It is often said, "The Bible is not a scientific text."
>I would like to know just exactly what is meant by that.
>What would a "scientific text" supplied or inspired by God look or read
>like?
>Could God (omniscient as he is) even write, inspire or supply a "scientific
>text?"
>Can observations or statements in ancient texts be used to develop or
>support a scientific model?
>Even if an ancient text were written by people who held 'non-scientific'
>beliefs about the natural world, could a scientist make use of statements
in
>the text that could be interpreted to agree with current scientific
>concepts
Hi Allen. To address one of your issues, at least
>It is often said, "The Bible is not a scientific text."
Jan de Koning brought up this very same point a few days back.
(We didn't get around to discussing it at that time.)
Mon Mar 11 2002 - 17:12:02 EST
>As indicated above, a discussion on the subject of Bible reading, even the
>reading of Genesis is very welcome, but only when we start with the
>preliminaries: "How do we read God's Word?''
To the YECrs - remember just how wrong the church was about Galileo and
consider the enormity of scientific evidence against you.
1 Corinthians 14:33 "for God is not a God of confusion but of peace"
Consider alternate interpretations of Gen 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jim
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