馃敩 Science vs. 馃尡 Religion. Which one do you think is more important in people's lives.
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justanothername 路 51-55, M
@Mia123 That鈥檚 simple mathematical conversion. Also easy to Google the conversion :)
Arguments normally arise around ethical topics such as marriage/relationships, birth/abortion /contraception etc. The Bible has specific views which are usually conservative and people who follow the Bible are pretty specific as to what they believe is the right or wrong answer while science will just give you the facts and it鈥檚 up to you to do with that info how you see fit.
That outcome may clash with the Bible.
It doesn鈥檛 mean it鈥檚 wrong or can鈥檛 be done it just means you will clash with someone else鈥檚 ideology.
Arguments normally arise around ethical topics such as marriage/relationships, birth/abortion /contraception etc. The Bible has specific views which are usually conservative and people who follow the Bible are pretty specific as to what they believe is the right or wrong answer while science will just give you the facts and it鈥檚 up to you to do with that info how you see fit.
That outcome may clash with the Bible.
It doesn鈥檛 mean it鈥檚 wrong or can鈥檛 be done it just means you will clash with someone else鈥檚 ideology.
ElwoodBlues 路 M
@Mia123
[quote]In 1650 the archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, began counting all the "begats" in the Old Testament. He also studied ancient Egyptian and Hebrew texts, analysed how the ancient calendars were calculated and came up with a date for the Creation.
The world, he concluded, had begun one weekend in 4004 BC - specifically, on the evening before October 23rd.[/quote]
Thus if you take the Bible literally, it tells you the Earth was created about 6000 years ago. Meanwhile science tells us the Earth is about 4.5 BILLION years old, and the universe is about 13.8 billion years old.
So if you take the Bible literally, there's a clear contradiction with science. If you take all those apparent contradictions to indicate that in those passages the Bible is being figurative or metaphorical or whatever, then we're willing to suspend any Bible statements that contradict science. So what does it mean to say the Bible is in any way historically "true"?
[quote]In 1650 the archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, began counting all the "begats" in the Old Testament. He also studied ancient Egyptian and Hebrew texts, analysed how the ancient calendars were calculated and came up with a date for the Creation.
The world, he concluded, had begun one weekend in 4004 BC - specifically, on the evening before October 23rd.[/quote]
Thus if you take the Bible literally, it tells you the Earth was created about 6000 years ago. Meanwhile science tells us the Earth is about 4.5 BILLION years old, and the universe is about 13.8 billion years old.
So if you take the Bible literally, there's a clear contradiction with science. If you take all those apparent contradictions to indicate that in those passages the Bible is being figurative or metaphorical or whatever, then we're willing to suspend any Bible statements that contradict science. So what does it mean to say the Bible is in any way historically "true"?