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Actual scientist, universities would never say that flaws and undeterminable calibrations exist if it never was true, I gather this info from people who have PHDs and other high educational degrees in that particular field.
You're getting your information from young earth creationist sites.
Again, when something is dated using two or more different dating methods and the testing is carried out by independent labs, the results are trustworthy.
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God wrote the Bible, in part, to reveal Himself to humanity and to reveal the person of Jesus Christ to the world.
The Bible presupposes God's existence, man's depravity, the existence of angels and demons, future end-time events, etc. - many things that cannot be measured or quantified or observed scientifically.
To answer the question - no, the Bible does not teach science nor speak to it. That is not the intent or purpose of the Bible.
The old testament does teach clean and unclean foods that are all scientifically backed, nowadays we have advanced cooking/preparation methods thats can overcome the unclean meat. But there is nobody who can refute the soundness of those clean and unclean
''Ancient people held several ideas that seem silly in light of modern scientific research. The human authors God inspired to write the Bible were no different from any other ancient people. As a result, antiquated ideas about the natural world show up in their writings. . .the Bible's authors believed the earth was flat. They also thought the liver, kidneys or intestines, and not the brain were the seat of human intellect and emotion. St. Paul may even have thought that a woman's hair helped women to become pregnant. . . How can we trust the Bible if some of the information it records is not actually true?''
Old Testament scholar Michael Heiser answers that question in the short 7 minute video below.
Michael Heiser — Does The Bible Teach Science? How the Bible’s Own Context Answers the Question
I don't know. I saw it on a sign in my old church once, and I thought it made a lot of sense. I don't believe we are meant to set our intellectual abilities aside and be robots. It's kind of like burying the talent, ya know?
Now there's a sentence that doesn't make sense, but I'm pretty sure you mean "do I believe the Bible is the inerrant, actual, infallible 'Word of God'".
No, I do not. Human beings wrote the 66 books and letters compiled into the volume we now know as "the Bible", and they wrote those books and letters for different reasons. They all represent humanity's search for and attempts to define God, but as one of those very letters pointed out, they all fell short. There's some wisdom in those writings. There's also a lot of purely-human nonsense, which, at the time, probably made sense to the authors.
The human desire to have God defined and watered down and condensed into a neat little black-and-white package one can carry in one's purse makes for a very limited spirituality, as well as something close to idolatry.
ETA: Please do not quote 2 Tim 3:16 in response. It's tiresome and shows no use of that God-given ability to reason.
Science and the Bible's teachings sometimes parallel each other, however the Bible is not intended to be a science textbook. Jehovah's people however, which of course are all Bible penmen, were aware the earth was round, at least from the writings of Isa anyway 40:22 to be exact. Take a gander at Job 26:7 Mike, isn't that unbelievable? When did worldly men of science figure that one out?
We can't say who figured out first. Phoenician sailors seem to have known in the 6th century BC. By the 5th century BC, the idea was well-published in Greek literature.
"My conviction is that the Earth is a round body in the centre of the heavens, and therefore has no need of air or of any similar force to be a support"
- Plato
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Well done, MQ!
