Hi, Ricmat and Zundrah -
I enjoy the older editions of my Holy Bible. The forwards and introductions do support divine revelation and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
I think that Science was not put here to bash God nor His Holy Bible, but to learn about the glories of His Creation and how to serve mankind. This rouge, or renegade, or Anti-Christ āscienceā has strayed from itās purpose. āEducationā, either without or against God, has little truth. These persecutions will pass. They are merely propaganda of the postmodern talking headsā¦or deceits of the Devil.
You may rest assured that both OT and NT miracles were real events. God still does miracles to this very day. These rouge āscientistsā are ready and able to shred any evidence we offer, or to totally reject it as irrevelant. (I canāt find a spell check. Oh, well.) They would do better to remember that religion was the cradle of science.
Science is so very young, just a few centuries of organized and tabulated data. Religion, on the other hand, has enduring and eternal truths to teach and has done so for thousands of years. Science and its scientists would do better to respect their religious elder, rather than bash, shred nor gainsay it.
God is love,
Don
Don, here is a history of science I put together that may be of interest to you;
Having reconciled Aristotleās philosophy with Christianity, next it was time to correct other ideas of the Greek scholar in the light of Christian revelation. This occurred on March seventh 1277AD, when Etienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris banned 219 propositions of Aristotleās from the University at Sorbonne, the leading place of education at the time. For example, aware that āit is impossible to make something out of nothingā; now called The First Law of Thermodynamics, Aristotle reasoned the universe must always have existed. The Old Testament however reveals that the world has not always existed but had a beginning in time when God created it. Here then, in 1277, theology asserts itself over the rational ideas of man. Other myths, shared by all the major pagan cultures including the Hindus, the Chinese, the Aztecs, the Egyptians, the Babylonians as well as the Greeks, were also eliminated from the Sorbonne, myths such as Animism (that the world is an animal); Pantheism (that the world and God are the same thing); Astrology (that the movement of the stars influence happenings on earth, and Cyclic History (that all events in history repeat themselves exactly in time). ā See
Why Did Science Start: Christian Order April 2001, pp. 210-222.
With the myths now exposed by revelation true science began. By 1330 Professor Jean Buridan corrected Aristotleās false physics of inertia. Aristotle used āintelligencesā to push celestial bodies whereas Burdian said
āSince the Bible does not state that appropriate intelligences move celestial bodies it could be said that it does not appear necessary to posite intelligences of this kind because it would be answered that God, when He created the world moved each of the celestial orbs as he pleased, and in moving them He impressed in them impetuses that moved them without His having to move them any more except by the method of general influence whereby He concurs as a co-agent in all things that take place; āfor thus on the seventh day He rested from all work that He had executed by committing to others the actions and the passions in turn.ā And these impetuses which He impressed in the celestial bodies were not decreased nor corrupted afterwards, because there was no inclination of the celestial bodies for other movementsā¦ā
Aristotleās āintelligencesā however were not that far fetched. Saints have said that God puts His angels in charge of nature to oversee His concursus and especially to maintain the perfection of His cosmos (geocentric of course) in their movements that guarantee man a means to measure time itself.
It was Galileo who removed God from inertia and Newton completed the Devilās promptings with his āLaws of gravitationā in which matter moves itself without the need for Godās concursus or initial action with the created bodies. Thus the heliocentric heresy that removed God from science and his creation. Science does not need Godās (name removed by moderator)ut any more.
Now let us see where science without revelation has led man today:
An eternal universe has returned.
An infinite universe has returned.
Nature evolved by itself and the survival of the fittest
Man evolved with an animal soul in a life and death struggle before Adam
With De Chardin Pantheism has returned
Astrology is rampant today to make up for the discarded religion of millions.
Cyclic history has returned (the Steady State theory I think it is called, as opposed to the big Bang theory.
Yes, back to pagan myth.
