Science and the Bible

Question: What did ancient cultures believe about the number of stars? What did the Bible teach about this? Answer: When the Bible was written only three thousand to four thousand stars were visible to the naked eye, and no telescopes had been invented yet. But listen to this verse in Jeremiah 33:22: “As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.” God was saying that David’s spiritual descendants through Christ would be very numerous, and He used the figure of speech...

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So did the universe spring into existence from nothing, without a creator, according to the scientific evidence? For most of history, people thought the universe was past eternal and uncreated, with matter and time and space already there.  It’s a lot easier for us today to think of a finite universe with a beginning, since the big bang theory is currently the most widely accepted theory. But a big bang without a creator has some major difficulties. Without a creator the big bang theory is essentially: “Nothing went ‘bang!’ and out came the universe.” The atheist, like the theist,...

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In ancient history, most cultures believed that the earth was flat, and if you went too far in a particular direction, off the edge you would fall!  The ancient Bablylonians or Egyptians are said by some to have believed in a circular earth, but the earth shown in their diagrams was a circular, flat disk floating in the ocean. Until the time of Pythagoras, about 600 B.C.  no one even suggested a spherical earth, and even then it was strictly an idea.  It took until about the third century before the idea of a spherical earth really started to take hold, and many more centuries to provide...

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