• Question: why does the bible and science not agree on anything

    Asked by sameverett to Arttu, Ceri, James_M, Monica, Philip on 16 Jun 2011.
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      Philip Dolan answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Well, I suppose the bible is used more as a guide to how we should live our lives spiritually and morally (there are plenty of other books which claim to do this too!). The bible is also generally open to interpretation, one of the more obvious examples being that God created the world in seven days.

      Science says things based solely on evidence and logic, and if there is more than one interpretation for something, then you just need to do more experiments to prove for sure it’s one particular explanation. This means that when we see that the oldest fossils are in general the most basic, with more complex life forms springing up gradually over millions of years, we think, and we look at all the evidence and a dead smart scientist like Darwin says logically it seems that we evolved from simple lifeforms into complex ones.

      I’d say in summary, I think that they’re trying to answer quite different questions, so why would you expect them to agree?

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