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Could be that you see it that way.
There is a difference between the physical and the spiritual. Science works off of the Physical and Religion works off of the Spiritual. At times the Physical and the Spiritual do seem to contradict themselves and they can be difficult to reconcile.
Look at the story that Jesus tells about the parable of the children in the market place.
“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
‘We played the flute for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge
and you did not mourn.’
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and “sinners.” ’ But wisdom is proved right by her actions.””
Matthew 11:16-18 (Luke 7:31-32)
In both Matthew and Luke this little parable is found wedged between Jesus talking about John the Baptist and Him expressing frustration at the Pharisees fault-finding paradigm and impossible-to-pleasyness. We have science and we have religion and they were both created by God and they both are designed to lead you do God. But a stumbling block needs to be turned into a stepping stone and so far you cannot seem to be able to do that. If you are a good steward of what you have then more will be given, but if you do not properly handle what you have then even that will be taken away from you.
12"For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him. 13"Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.14"In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, 'YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE;…
There are people that only go to a church for a funeral and for a wedding. In the parable Jesus says this is all they will get. If they do not accept either message then God does not give them anymore then that. One is happy the other is sad. It maybe difficult to reconcile the two.
Jesus says that wisdom is justified by her children. The ministry of John and Jesus were very different but you look at the fruit and what they both are able to produce despite their differences. Science and Religion both produce good fruit even if for some they are very different. For other like me I have no problem to reconcile their differences.
The Bible represents the heart and the emotions. Science represents the mind and intellect. In some ways the primitive brain at the core is better then the advanced brain that has evolved on the outside of the primitive brain. But they can be hard and difficult to reconcile. Then on top of that you do not want to even get into how male and female have been split and are trying to be united back together again. What happens when the male wants to represent the mind and the intellect and the women wants to represent love and the emotions? Or the other way around as you are trying to represent science and the intellect and the advanced brain and you say you have a conflict with emotions, love, religion and the more primitive brain. Yet you need to reconcile them and turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
The Hebrews by the way give us our religion and the Greeks gave us science.
Look at how extreme the conflict was at the time of the Holocaust during WW2 in Germany.
Let me repeat myself.If these things are written in the Bible, then why is it that no one ever discovers these amazing things through Biblical study? You would think that if there really were so many truths in there that surely someone would have got at least one of them by now!
Let me repeat myself.
God did not embed Easter eggs into his creation, then tell us where they were.
Science is like an Easter egg hunt, and God says ...
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
When a discovery is made, glory and honor come together.
KTS, I don't know what you're driving at here; so let's use an easy example, shall we?So then, whenever science makes a discovery and everyone interprets a particular passage from the Bible to agree with what science has discovered, you think those Bible-interpreters are just wrong?
If the eyeball was not perfectly shaped there would be at the most a blur and nothing for the cones and rods inside the eye to sense and report to the mind.
You will never convince me that the eye is something that has evolved...
Cornea - Transparent layer that covers the front of the eye. Must be lubricated with an organic chemistry to keep from drying out.
Lens - Bends and refracts light
Ciliary muscle - Provides focus
Aqueous humour - Fluid that holds a proper pressure and provides nutrients for the cornea and lens
Optic nerve - Takes information from the rods and cones and sends it to the mind.
The mind takes signals from the eye and builds a structure of reality...
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! - Matthew 6
And to describe the metaphors behind this scripture...
1. Eye - In this case your imagination
2. Single - Focused in on a mission or a life's direction
3. Light - If the imagination is good - The whole body is full of light (in this case faith, hope, charity, joy)
4. Evil - Focused on evil imaginations
5. Darkness - The opposite of spiritual light - fear, depression, hatred, sorrow
All of which takes an incredible amount of input and processing. If the eyeball was not perfectly shaped there would be at the most a blur and nothing for the cones and rods inside the eye to sense and report to the mind.
I say! It takes a lot of processing for an imagination to come to reality!
1. The mind must take what is sensed and build a sense of reality around it
2. That which is received of the rods and cones must be stored in visual memory banks and reasoned by conscience thought
3. With deep conscience thought also comes habits/instincts/personality traits/goals/ dreams
To create a single movie in computer standards takes in the neighborhood of giga-bytes of storage and a processor and software to make sense of the giga-bytes of storage. It has also taken decades of human reasoning to come up with the computer hardware to accomplish such a feat. The humming bird can...
1. Exist off flower nectar year round
2. Remember the source of nectar thousand of miles away
3. Navigate long distances without a GPS
4. Travel up to 500 miles a day while beating their wings 50 times a second
5. Reason how and where to nest and raise baby hummingbirds.
All with a mind a little bigger than a bb!
Evolution is amazing, no doubt about that.
The screen you are looking at just didn't 'evolve.' It took reasoning and intelligent design to build and come into reality.
KTS, I don't know what you're driving at here; so let's use an easy example, shall we?
The Bible says:
Zechariah 12:1a The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens,
What does God mean by "stretcheth forth the heavens"?
Back then, they may have not know what it meant.
But in due time, this Easter egg would become clear.
It means that outer space is expanding, and God did it.
Thus science is agreeing with the Bible here that the universe is expanding; and the Bible is agreeing with science that the universe is expanding.
First of all, how do you know no one EVER said that?If that passage refers to the expansion of the universe, why is it that no one EVER said, "The universe must be expanding, it says so right here in this Bible passage"?
First of all, how do you know no one EVER said that?
Second of all, I've explained why it wasn't considered by the scientific elite of the times.
In fact, I think I've explained it about twice to you.
Therefore, for the big boom to have occurred the matter had to have been there before the light and energy (E/c2)
If... E = mc2 ... Then m (matter) = E/c2 (energy)
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