Religious and Scientific
Interpretations of the Origins of the Universe
Valencia Scafe
A common understanding of the relationship between religion and science is that they stand in opposition to each other. On the one hand you have religious belief with its foundational premise that God is the reason why the universe and everything in it exists. On the other hand you have the sciences with their foundational premise that the explanation for why things happen in the universe and why anything is here does not require God just good science. Certainly it can be said that there have been times in the Christian Church's history where it has not been keen to adapt its understanding of the universe in the light of new scientific research.
However, there are still some in the Church today who challenge this view of the universe. As far as they are concerned the universe has not been formed as a result of a developmental process which took place over millions of years and humans are not here as a result of natural selection (or evolution).
Sir John Polkinghorne
God as Architect/Geometer, from the frontispiece o...
Science and Religion are portrayed to be in harmon...For these Christians the world, the universe and everything in it is here because God created it in six days.
Before writing off such Christians as profoundly mistaken it must be understood what is at stake for these people. Their belief in a young earth is based on what they believe to be the clear teaching of the Bible as found in Genesis 1. There it clearly says that God created the heavens and the earth over six days after which God rested on the seventh day. Furthermore, the Bible is believed to be the Word of God and so anything which challenges this understanding of the creation of the world as found in the biblical teaching is not just...
GOD
God created the Earth and the Heaven in six days. If God is a Deity, why question whether or not he could indeed create in six days? Was there scientist there to observe it? The bible is not fallable, the interpitations are. What you get and understand from one chapeter others will get something completely different from even though to you it is quite obvious.
One thing is certain, God is a Monarch (A King). His realm is refered to as a Kingdom (Not a Republic). I advise you to start support divinely inspired government (Monarchies) instead of manly inspired government (Republics). Monarchs have a divine right to rule through coronations done by the church in accordance with gods will. The church is supposed to keep the monarch in check and abide by gods will. If not, that is was parliment is for.
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