SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE
"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1:3)
There the red rose of Sharon unfolds its heartsome bloom
And fills the air of Heaven with ravishing perfume:
Oh! To behold it blossom, while by its fragrance fanned
Where glory—glory dwelleth in Immanuel’s land.
Anne R. Cousin (1824-1906)
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Unless otherwise stated the articles are by David W. Norris
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"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." (Colossians 1:16-17)
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A MODERN FAIRY TALE
The cross of Calvary has little meaning in modern atheistic Britain. Did Jesus ever exist, surely we are dealing with a fairy tale? Darwin has shown us the folly of our ways. No longer do men praise God that they are “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). We are nothing more than accidents of evolution. Love is something neurologists can uncover as an exchange of dopamine molecules across receptors in the amygdala. God died a long time ago. He died when the universe turned to a multiverse at the behest of theoretical physicists. We learned there was no Creator when they discovered there exists only an infinite succession of universes having no beginning or end. This is a grown up bedtime story we have written for ourselves with no one to read it to us, that does not end with ‛they all lived happily ever after’.
“For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water.” (2 Peter 3:5)
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FOSSILS AND DINOSAURS
..or, can a Christian believe in evolution?
Of course, evolution has little or nothing to do with what we think about fossils and dinosaurs. What we are discussing here amounts to two rival faiths. One says God created out of nothing and into nothing, the other claims the universe was brought about by powers within nature over billions of years. Between these two belief systems there is no position of reconciliation still less and ground of compromise. One is false, if the other is true.
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