What have Christians to be afraid of? Science is the study of God's creation- it should only shed light on everything. I personally don't find much solid contradiction between science and the bible- you just need to be open minded:
For example I believe in seven literal days in Gen 1; but does it contradict with evolution? No, because if we believe in God we could believe that he was able (and did, according the bible) make beasts, insects, fish and birds without being forced to first make a blob/slime/single cell, etc...
And what about pre-creations, old earth, etc?... when you read Gen 1, you find that there already water, and land underneath, etc... the earth was there already. When you get scientists saying 'the earth is 4.5 billion years old', they can be right!
When Paul said that Timothy should avoid 'science' (1 Tim 6:20-21) the actual greek word was was 'gnosis'- it seems Paul was talking about "gnostics", look them up! You'll see they certainly did make a lot of mess.
but I'm not with the church on the whole condom/HIV issue...
For example I believe in seven literal days in Gen 1; but does it contradict with evolution? No, because if we believe in God we could believe that he was able (and did, according the bible) make beasts, insects, fish and birds without being forced to first make a blob/slime/single cell, etc...
And what about pre-creations, old earth, etc?... when you read Gen 1, you find that there already water, and land underneath, etc... the earth was there already. When you get scientists saying 'the earth is 4.5 billion years old', they can be right!
When Paul said that Timothy should avoid 'science' (1 Tim 6:20-21) the actual greek word was was 'gnosis'- it seems Paul was talking about "gnostics", look them up! You'll see they certainly did make a lot of mess.
but I'm not with the church on the whole condom/HIV issue...
I'm kinda busy and don't have much time for these forums, so if you respond to this post, don't expect me to reply immediately- but I will try to get back to you sometime.
