Doesn’t Science Disprove the Bible?

What this episode covers

Old Testament Reading Our Old Testament reading is Genesis chapter one, verses 26 to 28, and this is the inspired and infallible word of God. Then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that lives on the earth. New Testament Reading And now let’s turn to Hebrews chapter 1, Hebrews chapter 1, verses 1 through 4. And this will be our sermon text as well, though we will also make reference to that Genesis passage. Hebrews chapter 1, verses 1 through 4. Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the word of His power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. Introduction and the False Assumption of Conflict This morning, we are continuing our sermon series that I have entitled questions people ask Christians. And last week, we considered the question, how can you say that Christianity is the only true religion? Before that, a couple of weeks ago, or three weeks ago, actually, we considered the question, how can I know that the Bible is true? And the question that we are asking this morning is, doesn’t science disprove the Bible? Another way to put it, hasn’t modern science shown that the teachings of Christianity cannot be true? This is a common question that people ask, but I think it’s probably safe to say that for most people, not all people, but for most people who ask this question or who have raised the objection that somehow science contradicts the Bible, for most people, they probably haven’t given a lot of thoughts either to the nature of science or to the teaching of scripture. Rather, for most people, it’s a question that’s born out of an assumption an assumption of something that simply isn’t true. And that is the assumption, the false assumption, that ever since the rise of modern science in our world, there has been this intense, ongoing, irresolvable conflict between religion and science, especially between Christianity and science. Many people just assume that that is the case. And that’s been that way for the last 150 years or so. That’s how people have tended to think about Christianity and science, that it’s one of ongoing conflict and warfare. And not only that, but This again is the popular way of understanding things. Not only are the two in conflict, but it’s a conflict with enlightened, reasonable thinking on one side, and with blind faith, fanaticism, ignorance, and fear on the other side. You may have seen the movie Inherit the Wind. That is the movie that was based on the famous Scopes Monkey Trial that took place in Tennessee, I think it was 1925. And if you’ve seen that movie, you have no doubt, the movie leaves you in no doubt, as to who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. The good guys are on the side of science. They are the calm, reasonable, rational proponents of evolution. And the bad guys are on the side of Christianity. They are the fundamentalist dimwits who refused to let go of their old-fashioned and outdated religious b

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