How do today's scientists look at
biblical miracles? Are they skeptical,
trying to prove there were natural phenomenon which could account for the
"miracles", or are they trying to understand them in the hope that ,
through gaining knowledge, they could duplicate them for the good of
mankind? Perhaps there is knowledge to
be gained, by science, that would be useful.
In a book titled "None Of These Diseases", the author discusses
a physician who, in the old days, decided through reading the Bible, he should
wash his hands between his visits to the morgue and his living patients. In those days, the doctors always went to the
morgue first. This doctor found that his
patients had a better survival rate than before the hand washing started. When he shared that information with the
other doctors, he was scoffed at and ostracized by the other doctors. This was before we had knowledge of
bacteria. In today's world, any doctor
not sanitizing himself between patients would be ostracized.
God says that we can move mountains by
prayer, through faith. The Founders of
all of the different disciplines of science were all believers of God and the
Bible.(1) Perhaps it takes spiritual
eyes, for scientists to accumulate knowledge by the study of why God did
things, to find out how God did things.
Example - We know now that by talking lovingly to our house plants, they
do better than those not talked to. We
see that when Jesus cursed the fig tree, it withered and died. Perhaps by using the information God gives
us, we can determine the outcome of things, or at least affect them. "With
men it is impossible, but not with
God: for with God all things are possible."[1]
John, the apostle, says that he gave
us all the information we need, to accomplish his purpose, but that he didn't
tell us everything.[2] This reminds me of the famous race car driver
who was asked if he could compete against his son. His reply was "I taught my son
everything he knows, but not everything
I know". Perhaps when his son was
ready, he taught him more. Perhaps when
we are ready, God will reveal more to us. John also wrote in chapter 21 verse
25: "And there are also many other things which
Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even
the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.".
(1) Below is a list of scientists, who believed
in God and the Bible (both the plan of salvation and the description of
creation).[3]
Sir Isaac Newton is known as the father of
modern science.
[A poll of scientists
concluded that Sir Isaac Newton was the greatest scientist that ever lived.]
Francis Bacon was the
inventor of the scientific method.
Joseph Lister – Antiseptic
Surgery
Louis Pasteur = bacteriology
Sir Isaac Newton – Calculus
Johann Kepler – Celestial
Mechanics
Robert Boyle – Chemistry
Georges Cuvier – Comparative
Anatomy
Charles Babbahe – Computer
Science
Lord Rayleigh – Dimensional
Analysis
Sir Isaac Newton – Dynamics
James Clark Maxwell –
Electrodynamics
Michael Faraday –
Electromagnetics
Ambrose Fleming – Electronics
Lord Kelvin – Energetics
Henri Fabre – Entomology of
Living Insects
Michael Faraday – Field
Theory
George Stokes – Fluid
Mechanics
William Herschel – Galactic
Astronomy
Robert Boyle – Gas Dynamics
Gregor Mendel – Genetics
Louis Agassiz – Glacial
Geology
James Simpson – Gynecology
Leonardo Da Vinci – Hydrolics
Matthew Maury – Hydrography
Blaise Pascal –Hydrostatics
Louis Adassiz – Ichthyologl
William Ramsay – Isotropic
Chemistry
Lord Rayleigh – Model
Analysis
John Ray – Natural History
Bernhard Riemann –
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Matthew Maury – Oceanography
David Brewster – Optical
Mineralogy
John Woodward – Paleontology
Rudolph Vichow – Pathology
Johann Kepler – Physical
Astronomy
James Joule = Reversible
Thermodynamics
James Clark Maxwell –
Statistical Thermodynamics
Nicholas Steno – Stratigraphy
Carolus Linnaeus – Systematic
Biology
Lord Kelvin – Thermodynamics
Humphrey Davy –
Thermokinetics
Georges Cuvier – Vertebrate
Paleontology
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