Science vs the Bible?

The Three Question of Man

Two and a half thousand years ago, man began asking the same three questions and writing the answers down that he continues to ask and write about today. Plato and Aristotle who used logic and reason, in a general sense, receive credit for originating these questions and the beginning of studying these questions in earnest. What are these three questions? First, how did we get here and what is the meaning of life. Second, how do we know what we know, or where does knowledge originate from. And third, what is the difference between right and wrong, or how do we know what is right and what is wrong?

There are two means, again, in a general sense, that humanity may approach these three questions: philosophically, or theologically. This thought that theology is similar to philosophy may trip some up, but a systematic/methodological approach to theology does indeed attempt to answer the three big questions (our being, knowledge, and morals) just as philosophy does. The difference? Philosophy may assume a creator but does not formally acknowledge what or who the creator is. And theology begins with the presupposition that God exists.

Now here is the real stumbler of a stumbling block. In answering the first question, our being, and because as you have read, or will read, nothing can create itself (otherwise nothing makes sense), we are stuck with this reality: science and theology are on equal footing. Why? Because both of these disciplines are trying to explain creation, that is why. Science uses the scientific method to study that which is created, and theology uses a systematic method to study creation from understanding the character of God. But only one of these disciplines can give us the why we exist, theology, and only one theological construct, Christian theology, can do so completely.

Science and theology inform one another. Regarding theology, Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God,” and John 1:1, “In the beginning, was the word,” is but one example. Regarding science, generating a hypothesis leads to scientific discovery. But Scripture (the Bible) stands alone as it informs both science and theology. The past three hundred years of scientific discovery, if one were to dig in earnest, would reveal that as science advances, the information as provided for by God in His written word is increasingly proven to be verifiably true. Neither science nor theology (the things of God) can ever be completely known, but the more one delves into both disciplines, the more astonishingly real the fact becomes apparent, science and theology cohere together in a fascinating fashion. The two are irrevocably intertwined. This is why, The Truth of the Trade is such a unique and comprehensive beginning presentation of the truth of God, and therefore the truth of the reason for our existence, to glorify the creator (Isaiah 43:7). Logic and reason defined.

From this fact as outlined regarding our being, the following two questions of man, knowledge and morals, flow from this basic presupposition. The answers to these two questions can therefore be understood both comprehensively and coherently. Truth defined.