Jack Haas wrote:
> Greetings: Bernard Ramn's The Christian View of Science and Scripture
> (1954) helped many evangelicals to put to rest the notion that the
> Bible contained statements which anticipated modern scientific
> discovery/technology - the atomic bomb, submarines, gravity, etc.
> etc., etc. Sadly, the notion crops up in a recent publication of a
> respected ministry.
>
> "Not one, but five writers of Scripture describe God's
> 'stretching out' of the heavens. >From a scientist's
> perspective, these ancient writers predict the
> twentieth-century discovery of continual cosmic expansion.
> (1) The book of Romans tells readers that the entire
> creation is subject to the law of decay. Again, a scientist
> would see this statement as an obvious reference to the
> second law of thermodynamics. (2) The apologetics
> importance of these two points cannot be overstated. They
> demonstrate that the Bible - long before scientific
> observation and experimentation - identified the basic
> features of the big bang universe; expansion (from a
> beginning point) and cooling"(1) Job. 9:8, Ps. 104:2, Isa.
> 40:22, 42:5, 44:24, 45:12, 48:13, 51:13, Jer. 10:12, 51:15,
> Zech. 12:1.(2) Rom. 8:19-22.
>
> I suspect that most members of this list are as dubious about this
> notion as I am. It would be helpful to a younger generation if some
> of us would update the case against this idea. I would be willing to
> pull together your points for the ASA web page.
>
> In the spirit of the ASA model of discussion I cannot rule out comment
> by those in the pro camp. However....
>
Jack -
Can you tell us what this "respected ministry" is?
George
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