I would rather not broadly reveal the source as it is more important to deal with the issue than the author. If someone needs verification send me a private note.
Blessings,
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: george murphy
To: Jack Haas
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: The Bible anticipates scientific discoveries - again!
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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