February 8 - Science and the Bible

You’re listening to OKY. The place where we discuss what we believe and why we believe it to be true! Today’s question goes out to Ava - yes, she is my daughter! She asks, “If we believe in the Bible, what are we supposed to do with science?” 

 

Great Question Ava!!!!

 

Burt first, let me give you some thoughts. 

 

When a Hebrew child was born, they had to wait 8 days, and then be circumcised. This was prescribed by God in the book of Genesis 17:12. Listen to this instruction starting with verse 9. 

 

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to underdog circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between and you. For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner- these who are not your offspring. 

 

After 8 days. 

 

Now I know today we rush it and circumcise children just days into their existence. But science has proven this to be a risky way to do circumcision. Medical science has only recently discovered that blood clotting in a newborn reachers its peak on the 8th day. That’s when the coagulating factors in the blood are at optimal levels: vitamin K doesn’t reach sufficient quantity until after day seven, and day eight is when prothrombin is the highest, reaching 110 percent of the normal levels. If you are like me and don’t know what prothrombin is - it’s a protein in your plasma that aids coagulation. 

 

Job talks about earth as a free floating globe in the middle of space. . Job 26:7 (which mind you, was written over 3000 years ago when there were no telescopes or other ways of seeing into space. Job 26:7 says, “He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.” The Bible proclaims that the earth is freely floating in space. This was written during a time when people had no clue about what the earth looked like from space, and before they even had way to tell what space is like. 

 

And how about this, Isaiah 40:22 explains that the earth is round - it says, “It is HE who sits above the circle of the earth.” Back then, they had no working understanding of the shape of the earth. Yet the Bible writes about it’s shape - and got it right. 

 

In the 1670s, French scientists, Pierre Perrault and Edme Marriotte researched and developed our understanding of water cycles here on the earth. They discovered how water evaporates into the air, comes down as precipitation, and even causes condensation. Yet, once again, thousands of years before their research, it was recorded in Job 26 that - He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. Later in chapter 36 we read, “He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.” So basically, Job had already done the work to understand the water cycle much before the French scientist made their discoveries. 

 

And don’t forget Noah’s ark. Remember what I said a few weeks back? The floating buoyancy of a large cargo vessel keeps exactly half the weight below water. It’s recorded in the flood account that the waters rose to 15 cubits above the highest mountain. Which is exactly half of the 30 cubit high vessel of an ark. 

 

Science. . . 

 

There are pieces of science all throughout the Bible if you look. And the funny thing is, we don’t even realize how significant these discoveries are! The Bible makes claims about science far beyond the years it was written! 

 

So when we talk about science, you should know that science is the understanding of the order God created in. It’s logical words to the spiritual mysteries of God’s great design in the cosmos. We should embrace science. It is the proof of God’s majestic power! 

 

Not science that tries to experiment and recreate things that weren’t meant to be. That’s mad science. But science that strives toward learning and understanding will always lead us to a greater revelation of God’s majesty! 

 

So learn more about the science of the world, and at the same time study your Bible deeply and see how science is laid out all throughout the scriptures. Science is mean to help us understand the God who created all things! So focus on the Bible, and then study science to see what amazing things are confirmed about scriptures!