Has science really disproved the Bible?
By Hope
@1hopefulman (45123)
Canada
October 19, 2017 3:28pm CST
I love a challenge! People sometimes say that science has disproved the Bible. Has it really done so or has it disproved things that people believe but the Bible never said? Has science disproved the Bible or misunderstandings that people have?
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Example: some people believe that the Earth is 6000 years old while all the evidence shows that the Earth is billions of years old.
Genesis 1:1 (American Standard Version) 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
How does someone get that the earth is 6000 years old from that?
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
20 Oct 17
@topffer I left the Catholic church a long time ago when I was molested by a monk and beaten up by another for responding to an accusation when I was innocent in a Catholic school and beaten up by fellow young parishioners for being Italian in a French neighborhood after church. My stint as an altar boy came to and end. I don't see anything unscientific with the Genesis account. So, unless the pope sees my house burning and yells fire then he can keep his ideas when it comes to God to himself. And yes, it still hurts!
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
19 Oct 17
It is not like that top. There is no conflict in religion and science. It is reading it out of context that creates conflicts. Age of earth as per Gregorian calendar that we use would be different from age that is actually as per those books. Gregorian calender came quite late, right? How did they refer or calculate years before they became familiar with 0 (Indian contribution)? So they may have had shorter spans to refer to time, and simply had no words to refer to larger number of centuries. Robinson Crusoe used those statistical bars to keep track of a week. Imagine when they did not know earth was round, why would year then be like Gregorian calender?
And quite often, priests made up somethings because they had no answers, and they did not want to look ill equipped to answer some smart alec's questions. Ego.
All this happened in all religions.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
20 Oct 17
@1hopefulman Sorry for that, but I do not think it is specifically Catholic, and it could have happened in any community. I lived in an area with a very old Protestant community in the countryside who has the reputation to never call the police or the justice for a temporal problem. I do not think they would have treated you better if they had suspected you of something. And there are xenophobic people in any community. The National Front here recruits its electors among them. As a Catholic and a scientific, I am pleased that the Catholic church has since the 1970's made a distinction between religion and science and adopted a position sensibly the same than the Non Overlapping Magisteria theory developed by Stephen Gould in the USA. I would have lose my faith if my church was supporting creationism.
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
23 Oct 17
I also believe both! I just don't believe false interpretations of the Scriptures or bogus science that passed on as science. Go figure? 
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
24 Oct 17
@DianneN I read everything and I've seen a lot that has been passed on as science when it wasn't science.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search See also: List of topics characterized as pseudoscience For a broader coverage related to this topic, see Pseudo-scholarship. Part of a series on Science Formal Physical Chemistry Physics Ea
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@DianneN (246849)
• United States
24 Oct 17
@1hopefulman I know zilch about false interpretations and bogus science. I know what I know, and that's good enough for me.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
4 Jan 18
1) 'That sentence' was never "where anybody got 'the age' of anything.
The 6000-year figure comes from 'the begat-lists' (Adam begat Seth (and other sons & daughters). Seth begat (with other sons & daughters) ... Abraham begat Isaac (with other sons & daughters), Isaac begat Jacob (with other sons & daughters), Jacob begat the 12 tribes' fathers, etc.)
Science hasn't "disproven" it, so much as 'revealed that the process is more complicated than most of us will ever know.'
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
4 Jan 18
The genealogy only shows that mankind is about 6000 years old. The earth existed long before man was created. The Bible does not specify the age of the earth. The length of the "six" days that the earth was prepared for human habitation are not mentioned. So, whatever age scientists prove the earth to be is possible.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
5 Jan 18
@1hopefulman According to Shepherd's Chapel bible-study broadcasts, that part of the bible (all the way up to ... after the flood?) is part of The First Earth Age. With people living 6- or 9-hundred years, no rain (though a lot of the land was swampy) and non-Adamic people springing out in various places ... it's bound to be a little more "speculation" than actual evidence-backed history.
STUDY AT OWN PACE ____I suggest one get the shepherd's chapel study on : The 3 earth ages . In a single verse (universe), we were told long ago (before i…
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@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
19 Oct 17
"Scientists have calculated that Earth is 4.54 billion years old, with an error range of 50 million years". Some bible scholars because they see a day is like a thousand years do their own calculations and come up with.. shouldn't it be 5,000. Never mind I think the bible scholars need to go back to school. Good topic science and the bible.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
19 Oct 17
You heard five? I thought I heard six? My hearing isn't that great.
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
19 Oct 17
@1hopefulman I meant ... sorry.
Some bible scholars take the bible literally and came up with that figure on their own. I don't recall God saying, " I now give you this science book for science studies" But then maybe my hearing is giving up the ghost too.
I was thinking on my own. When they calculate from the seven day scripture that is one day for rest would there not also be a grace day that is the time it took to start everything off as in one day to build a universal clock and therefore making it five days in total for other creations. Sound ridiculous? It should because all these calculations are.
What is better is to find the significance for the writing and not to try to make scientific calculations out of our wonderful preserved ancient writings of old.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
19 Oct 17
@Bluedoll Yes, if one wants to take the Bible literally, then, the Bible doesn't say how old is the Earth. There is no scripture that says the Bible is 6000 years old or any other age. So anybody can calculate whatever they want. So, science has not proved the Bible wrong but the calculations and the calculators.
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
19 Oct 17
I heard that too. As far as I can see, the Bible does not say how old is the Earth. So, whatever science comes up with now or in the future will not ever prove the Bible wrong.
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@BigTalpha (117)
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19 Oct 17
Actually science has never proven the Bible wrong as a matter of fact every atheist that has tried to prove the Bible wrong has proved it right. Look at archeology it has proven the Bible to be right several times.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
20 Oct 17
Yes, there are no contradictions between science and the Bible.
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
21 Oct 17
Great thoughts and question here. In reality no one really knows how old it is is why there are these suggestions out there. If everyone knew, understood and read the Bible there would be less misunderstand and more knowledge
@buenavida (9985)
• Sweden
20 Oct 17
The Bible is accurate when it tells about the chronology, so the history of us humans started with the creation of Adam, about 6000 years ago, but before that God created the animals and plants and trees and everything that grows..and - before that he prepared the earth - and before that, he made the universe.. There is nothing in the Bible about how long it took to make the universe, so we can let the scientists guess.. 
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
21 Oct 17
Exactly! When we go beyond the things that are written we run into problems.
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@just4him (306239)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 Oct 17
This topic his highly debatable. I believe science proves the Bible, not disproves it. By the time they get to where they've made a discovery, they find the Bible (God) was there ahead of them.
When it comes to the age of the earth, I think science has it right. Why? Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God hovered above the waters. (From memory)
What we know from reading the Bible is that there was a war in heaven. See Isaiah 14. Jesus also said he saw Satan fall as lightning from heaven. Where did he go? Earth, the beautiful earth God created in verse 1. With Satan occupying earth, God could not look at the earth he created, and sent a flood to cover the earth. What we have in verse 2. How long God took his eyes off the earth, as indicated by the ice age we know existed from the glaciers seen in various areas of the earth, we don't know. The only way there could be an ice age would be if God turned away from the earth he created. His light would put the earth into an instant ice age. It was only when God turned his attention back to the earth that the ice melted, and the Spirit hovered over the waters.
So with science saying the earth is millions and billions of years old, it is highly possible. However, to say man has been here that long, not possible. Time started when God brought the earth back to the life it had in verse 1, and then created the animals and people on day 6. After that, God rested from all the creation he had created.
This is my understanding with all the study I have done on Genesis 1 the first two verses.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
20 Oct 17
Thanks for sharing your understanding and research. I also think that there is no contradiction between science and the Bible.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
20 Oct 17
There will always be a debate.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
20 Oct 17
That's true and if I guess correctly, you are not that crazy about debates. For the record, how do you view the Bible?
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
29 Dec 17
True! There are museums full of such material.
I recently came across this verse. Proverbs 17:22 (ASV) 22 A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
It is interesting that the Bible recognized the link between emotional health and physical health a long time ago and science and modern medicine recognizes that today.
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@William21001 (2637)
• Havre De Grace, Maryland
19 Oct 17
No one disagrees with anything there is no proof of nothing people has many ideas but no conclusive information
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@Shortail (845)
• Philippines
19 Oct 17
the only missing in bible is the calculation, or the formula or equation to proves that bible telling the truth. but what science do is to prove everything with the proper calculation. and the problem with science if they don't know the answer, the last words from them, it's up to god.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
19 Oct 17
The problem is also that too many people believe things that they think are in the Bible but they are not.
The Bible does not say how old the Earth is and so whatever science says, there is no problem.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
19 Oct 17
@Shortail I don't know? I can't say because I don't know? And, I'm not going to say what I don't know!
@Shortail (845)
• Philippines
19 Oct 17
@1hopefulman yup, because i think it's incomplete, until now, they don't discovered yet some parts of the bible.
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