The Origins of the Universe

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That depends on what you mean by "agree with modern science". 

The verse conveys the idea that everything was "combined" and then split apart, which agrees with the modern description of a universe expanding from a "singularity" or a dense initial state, this much is indisputable.

But that *isn't* the modern description. There was no 'combining' and then 'splitting apart'.

It seems you don't even know what the modern description says.

 The verse is certainly not backed by modern cosmological science, as modern science doesn't support the idea of creation.

Science is silent on the idea of creation, it neither confirms nor rejects it.

But it does go directly against most Abrahamic versions of creation.