Is the description of creation in the Bible scientifically correct?

Answer 1

Science depends upon two major tenets: observation and repeating the model to determine validity. Since no one was there at the Creation, science may only postulate the beginning which you only need to look at change/new thought over the last decade or so and see varying theories.

God asked Job this very question in Job 38. He is a part of it:

Job 38:1-7 (New King James Version -NKJV):

The LORD Reveals His Omnipotence to Job1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

2 "Who is this who darkens counsel

By words without knowledge?

3 Now prepare yourself like a man;

I will question you, and you shall answer Me.

4 " Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who determined its measurements?

Surely you know!

Or who stretched the line upon it?

6 To what were its foundations fastened?

Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 When the morning stars sang together,

And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

AnswerThe description of creation in The Bible is scientifically true if the world existed before the sun, drifting aimlessly through a cold and empty space. It is true if the light of day can be created without the sun, which was not created until day 3. It is true if grass, plants and trees can survive before there is a sun. It is true if there is a firmament that can hold back the waters above and separate them from the waters below. Maybe it is true if man, both male and female, was created at the same time and last of all but then the account of the creation of Adam and Eve is not true, as that account says Adam was created before all the animals, not after.

Science depends on observation of events as they occur or on observation of the evidence for past events. It says that the sun existed long before the earth, although the sun is far from being the oldest star in the universe. It says that man evolved over a period of millions of years, at the same time as other modern species were also evolving. Neither creation story in Genesis is scientifically true.

Answer:

Our Creator inspired His Word for the "Faithful"... not the carnal minded [those whose minds and hearts aren't opened to His Truth]. The Genesis account isn't a scientific thesis, but a quick overview of WHAT happened... not HOW it happened.

Not being there to see it happen, man can only take the evidence of creation [look at the things God made], experiment with it and apply his thought processes to form his conclusions.

Eve was the world's first scientist who performed her own experiment with the data presented to her... which resulted in the beginnings of mankind's troubles. Because the scientific method isn't the exacting methodology man thinks it is. It's major drawback is the final step -- human reasoning.

"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." (Prov.14:12 NIV)

Man's mind is finite and easily deceived... because his receptors, his five physical senses, that feed "physical data" [touch, sights, sounds, tastes and smells] to his brain can all be easily manipulated and deceived. For example, witness science's advent of "artificial flavoring" and "scented mists."

The Bible tells us that there are TWO KINDS of understanding. The deceptive understanding man derives from his carnal thought processes... and God's Truth, Divine Knowledge and Understanding, derived from "Faith" [one's believing] in His Word.

The Bible isn't a science book... it's a Faith Book. Faith is "spiritual"... an unmeasurable, immeasurable entity that science doesn't recognize and cannot include as evidence in its quest for truth.

Instead of "believing the creation account" in the Bible, as God intended for His elect to do, and launching its investigations on that foundation... faithless science rejects it and begins its investigation on any number of ever-changing proposed foundations as varied as the number of carnal minded scientists there are to expound them. Even faithless Eve, the world's first scientist, reached the wrong conclusion because of this rejection.

So, a doubt as to the "correctness" of science arises between scientific method and the "Faith-based" creation account in the Bible. Science in and of itself isn't a bad method... it's just a flawed one, based on man's failure to include the "spiritual evidence" of the unseen, undetectable-to-the-human-senses, spirit realm.

"...our struggle is not against flesh and blood [physical evidence]... but against... the [blindness of man to] spiritual forces... in the heavenly realms." (Eph.6:12 NIV)

Until science can somehow measure immeasurable spirit... like the Faith God requires in a person, to understand the Bible's creation account... the findings of science in this matter must be regarded as somewhat less than "correct."

Answer 2

The description of creation in the Bible is scientifically true if the world existed before the sun, drifting aimlessly through a cold and empty space. It is true if the light of day can be created without the sun, which was not created until day 3. It is true if grass, plants and trees can survive before there is a sun. It is true if there is a firmament that can hold back the waters above and separate them from the waters below. Maybe it is true if man, both male and female, was created at the same time and last of all but then the account of the creation of Adam and Eve is not true, as that account says Adam was created before all the animals, not after.
Science depends on observation of events as they occur or on observation of the evidence for past events. It says that the sun existed long before the earth, although the sun is far from being the oldest star in the universe. It says that man evolved over a period of millions of years, at the same time as other modern species were also evolving. Neither creation story in Genesis is scientifically true.

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