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Science and The Bible

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How does the Holy Bible vs 'science' turn out? THE BIBLE WINS EVERY TIME...let Dr. Morris guide you through a very interesting topic that will renew your faith.

This book is a comprehensive source of information for those who have begun a course on biblical science or creation science. The non science of the theory of evolution has once again been exposed for its failure to provide any irrefutable or even credible scientific evidence for its claims. Of course Mr Morris has published several other detailed titles e.g. the Genesis Flood, which has proven the authenticity of the inspiration of scripture in light of biased unproven hypotheses. Those who have commented unfavourably against this book have once again presupposed that evolution is a science and the Bible is a religious book. Of course not one jot of science has been provided in their comments to justify their opinion.

This is an excellent book. Dr. Henry Morris is a Christian scientist. In this book he looks at several different aspects of science from a Christian perspective. I highly recommend this book.

This is an excellent science book that explains in easy to understand english how the amazing miracles such as creation, the flood, etc. according to a biblical perspective. Henry Morris provides many biblical references and a lot of proof. I was a Christian before reading this book, and already beleived that God created the earth and sent his son to die on the cross. However, for someone who has doubts of how creation, the flood, etc. are possible, I would highly recommend this book.

This is an excellent book. Dr. Henry Morris is a Christian scientist. In this book he looks at several different aspects of science from a Christian perspective. I highly recommend this book.

When I was a freshman in high school, a religious great aunt sent me this book because she had heard that I was interested in science. Up to that point it had not actually occurred to me to question the account of creation in Genesis. After reading this book, however, and considering its contrived arguments, I became convinced that testable scientific theories (e.g. Darwinian evolution and modern astrophysics) offered better explanations for the origin of the world. Ironically, this book led me away from a literal reading of the Bible to more allegorical interpretation.

I read this book not too long ago and found that the common theme of it was to never actually use science to prove anything. It would use some laws while ignoring others that are needed to complete a formula in order to say why some things couldn't be. It's not hard to "disprove" something when you don't take into account all information needed. The author would also use vague descriptions of certain concepts in order to promote an idea, problem being that the author either failed to understand what they were saying or did this on purpose to mislead. And when the author couldn't "disprove" something even with false interpretations of science the author would simply say that it didn't exist. The book uses science loosely, but never correctly and relies more on using analogies that don't really apply to the topics covered in this book. Avoid this book if you are looking for a scientific explanation for creationism or even a young earth, any science it uses is warped and relies on the reader not understanding true science. Read a science text book on biology, geology, etc if you truly want to understand Gods creations. Once you understand the science you will realize how amazing Gods creations truly are. They are not simple, they are remarkably complex and adaptable.

I still have a hard time people actually take this stuff seriously sometimes. I've not yet finished the chapter on prophesies fulfilled, but I feel at this point able to make a good assessment. I got this book from a friend's stash of old Christian books, and went through it and annotated it. My margins are full of pointing out inconsistencies, scientific inaccuracies (I was kind to the margin and only marked the most egregious ones, otherwise I'd have had no room for it!), and downright absurdities and appeals to emotion. Verses are retrospectively interpreted as having stated a principle (like universality of matter), when the text is far from clear and the belief wasn't commonly held until it was later discovered by other means.

His section on Evolution follows the same misconceptions, bad argument, and appeal to the Bible as a priori true that everyone's heard. And refuted, again and again, thoroughly and thoroughly. He suffers the same failure to understand evolution that, unfortunately, most evangelicals and even many non-evangelicals seem to have. It's to be rejected as against God from the start, and so ignored or caricatured. He of course invokes arguments meant to stir emotions by equating it with communism, immorality, and let's face it - baby-eating is probably implied in his mind.

The Flood section is even worse, especially given the vast numbers of properties of physics that would need to be broken for his flood canopy, or the downpour of so much rain in 40 days, or the problems arising from a vast underwater ocean to well up. He appeals to knowledge of shipbuilding, when Noah's ark wouldn't have even been seaworthy (modern wooden ships can't be built that large, even with better materials and technology! They would simply sink)! His theory of the animals hibernating was pretty funny, and he ignores or brushes aside the huge number of very important criticisms of the animals and ark.

With Archeology he fares slightly better, in that two or three of the things he points out are actually not egregiously incorrect! Some are interpreted with a big stretch though. Still, most of this section is contradicted by modern archeology. I loved his claim that we have no idea how languages developed, and that the Babel story is the BEST explanation we have! Or the appeal to the conquest of Canaan, which is now fairly untenable (though in his defense, it may not have been quite so much so at the time of his writing this edition).

So to sum it up - it's a piece of drivel. Science has nothing to do with this book, it's merely the Young-Earth Creationist defense laid out in standard form, and only those raised on such ideas (or maybe the extremely gullible?) are going to accept the book wholesale. Others who aren't willing to research claims even further may accept parts. If you do read it, i suggest you keep the Talk Origins 'index of creationist claims' open at the same time, and make a point of how much it follows the list, and how thoroughly the index provides insight into the misrepresentation, misunderstanding, or simple spin-doctoring used.

Morris believes that the Bible can be scientifically proven. This is impossible, since the Bible is a religious text. It is an interesting read, but keep in mind that Morris uses bad science and fallacy after fallacy to make his religion look scientific.