How the Bible Vanquishes Science

The conflict between secular humanism and biblical faith has moved from arguments over evolution into the general culture. For example, many religious groups send their children to private schools in order to escape the humanist teaching. According to the last US Census, over six million Americans are attending private elementary and secondary schools. An additional two million children are home schooled with these numbers growing at 15 to 20% a year. The humanist philosophy is not just proclaimed by schools and universities. It is promoted by the media and by most institutions in the great Western civilization. It would seem that the only ones who are at war with secular humanism are those who have faith in the Bible.

Western media and governments are doing their best to keep the peace by promoting cultural and religious tolerance. In regards to creation, this means anyone can have their private versions of truth, but the only officially promoted truth is an accidental universe and chance life. In academic circles, Creationists are often ridiculed as unable to explain the simplest evidence from astronomy, geology and paleontology. Many scientists believe young earth Creationists have

their minds completely closed to evidence or facts.

May I suggest there is a simple way that biblical Creationists can triumph. I am not suggesting that we focus on politics or that we promote our own scientific system. I mean truth can triumph over error decisively. If we take what the Bible says about physical reality as fundamentally true, our truth will utterly and completely triumph over the scientific system.

Three thousand years ago the Philistines so dominated the occupied Israelite tribes that they permitted no blacksmith in Israel. Israelite farmers had to pay the Philistines to make and sharpen their plowshares and scythes. For this reason the newly chosen Israelite king and his young son Jonathon were the only ones armed with swords and spears. When the Philistines heard that their subjects had chosen a king, they sent three thousand chariots to the pass in Michmash. All that was left of Saul's army were 600 poorly armed men quaking in fear of the Philistines.

At Michmash the pass crosses a gorge with cliffs dropping down on each side to the valley below. Then the young prince Jonathon said to his armor bearer, "Perhaps the LORD will work for us, for the LORD is not restrained to save by many or by few." So Jonathon and his armor bearer scaled the cliff and charged into the Philistine army in single file. They killed about twenty Philistines as Jonathan knocked them down with his staff and his armor bearer, behind him, dispatched them with the spear. The Lord sent a mighty earthquake at that moment, just as the Philistines sounded the alarm. Most of the Philistine army could not even see the two men who were attacking. Yet they panicked and even fought each other in the confusion. Two lone youths brought about a great victory as their simple faith moved God to act.

We have more reason for confidence in complete victory than Jonathon. He spent his life fighting the Philistines. They eventually killed him in the battle of Mount Gilboa. Our God has already promised us that we will bring down the mighty fortresses of speculative knowledge built up against Him. (II Corinthians 10:3 - 6). He will defeat the wisdom of THIS AGE with their own skills. (The common name for the wisdom of THIS AGE is science).

Can the Lord use us to glorify His name in this battle? Can He really take the wise of this age with their own skills although they are supported with official recognition, government moneys, logic, mathematics and even experimental evidence?

Here is the formula for such a victory.

1. Stop trying to be wise using the wisdom of THIS AGE. This is an imperative command/ 1 Corinthians 3:18 "Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise."

2. Understand, as Peter predicted, the first thing to know about the last days. It is the idea that "all things continue the same in being or relationship." History shows that this little idea was invented by the pagan Aristotle. The Catholic scholastics used this idea as the foundation for Western science about 700 years ago. Every facet of scientific reasoning was built on this assumption. Even their system of measurement, their mathematics and their earth histories depend on this assumption circularly. Such a system can achieve precise results in nearby areas and eras, but it cannot understand the ancient earth or distant universe.

3. Stop using this elementary principle as the basis of our way of thinking. Paul warns that the elementary principles of philosophy capture us. (Colossians 2:8) When an idea takes one captive, you do not know how to think any other way.

4. Use the historical, grammatical approach to interpreting the Bible, not just about salvation, but about earth-history. Our ideas of time and matter are at odds with the historical way people thought about these.

If we do these things our whole world view will change. This biblical world view is negative since it cannot invent causal laws, yet it can interpret the evidence without using mathematical arguments. The simplest evidence from the universe and geology fits the words of the Bible once you abandon the first principal that Peter predicted.

Once you abandon this first principle, you will be able to go on the offensive, just like Jonathan at the battle of Michmash. Their powerful system cannot permit examination of its first principle because then ordinary people could interpret the evidence in an alternative way. You see, it is so much simpler to accept what the Bible says about physics than to invent a fictional universe populated with invisible mathematical things in order to make their laws of physics "work" in the distant universe. It is in the distant universe, the heavens, the raqiya, the pounded out place, that evidence for God's creation is visibly seen. We see creation as it happened long ago, in the very way the Bible grammatically states.

Think about it.