Thread:SouthWriter/@comment-5018798-20130812104509/@comment-5018798-20130826143322

Hmm. Sorry I was mulling over what you wrote. I apologise if I have not been clear in my responses so far.

I am slightly puzzled. Prehaps the only way to let the Bible "speak for itself" is to type it up. Humanity is very good at interpretation. For instance you and I look at Genesis and although we agree that the same God created the universe, we have differing ideas about how He went about it, based purely on the same text. Whilst this disagreement has no bearing on our salvation, it has ramifications for the functioning of the wiki... I fear that these disagreements could pop up fairly frequently. Of course I might be misinterpreting what you said... apologies if this is so.

"Science" as I see is what can be proved to happen by experementation. For example pure water freezes at zero degrees celcius or boils at a hundred degrees. Or the conservation of matter. The important thing to note in my view is that God created everything. Science is therefore the study of understanding more about His creation and the way it functions. The more we study the more we can paint a more definite picture of this universe and it's complexity. The more we see, the more we can praise God for... So science is subordinate to Christianity but by no means diminished by it. Indeed science strengthens my faith.

Throughout my studies I have found evidence that science is correct. This does not mean the Bible is not. If God did not exist and athiests were correct then we would have no reason to believe that science would exist. For it has been a subject of puzzlement to the scientific profesion that things stay the same. The way the observable universe is built (according to eyewitness observation) means that there is no reason for things to stay constant. The laws of physics, all the constants? There is no reason for them to stay constant. Yet they persist in doing so, because, as should be obvious to a creationist, God is holding them there. Every quark, muon, boson, atom, electron is all being held by God. Is that not a reason to give thanks? Is that not one pretty good proof of His existance and love? So science helps, not hinders.