I agree
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: <alexanian@uncw.edu>
To: <jan@dekoning.ca>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:43 PM
Subject: RE: The Bible is not a scientific text??
> The foremost message in Genesis is that God is indeeed the Creator of all.
That message has been missed by many scientists. I cannot think of any other
scientific statement that outweighs that fact. Moorad
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan de Koning [mailto:jan@dekoning.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:16 AM
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: The Bible is not a scientific text??
>
>
> Allen,
> The topic has been discussed many times before. And, unfortunately, we
> cannot know what a "scientific" text written or inspired by God would look
> like. We have to study His creation, draw conclusions, discuss etc..
That
> has been done many times here.
> No human being could ever supply such a text. Another thing is: God
talked
> to people in their own language at a certain time, giving directions for
> life. When God says that we have to till the ground, we do not know how
> God would till the ground. That is a matter for studying.
> While I am always glad that people want to discuss these things,
> "new-comers" should not expect us oldies, who have been talking about
these
> things for many, many years (in my case 60 years) to repeat ourselves more
> than once or at most a few times a year.
>
> Jan
>
> At 08:20 PM 13/03/02 -0700, Allen Roy wrote:
> >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?
> >
> >I know what I think, but I'd like to hear what those on this net think.
I
> >don't have time to get involved in a deep discussion, so I'm just going
to
> >post the questions and read the responses.
> >
> >Allen
>
>
>
>
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