Thread by @ArthurGDavis

Reflections on hearing an apologetics talk entitled "Has science disproved God?" 1/

GAH ARE YOU SERIOUS WHY 2/

Okay sorry look it's just 3/

Alright. So. 4/

"The Bible is not a science textbook." Neither is the Bible a theology textbook 5/

"There is no conflict between science and the Bible" does not mean the Bible must display scientific accuracy and that we must engage in harmonisation/concordism 6/

So first, we are yet to come to terms with the nature of the Bible. It is not God's word in a fell-from-heaven sense 7/

"We affirm science" but this surely means affirming the work of scientists, not trying to shoot down the entire theory of evolution or some such 8/

"Loving God with all your mind" will not look like more apologetics, but rather more Xns becoming scientists and going deep into their field of inquiry 9/

So second, we have yet to come to terms with the nature of science. It is not something we can have our own version of just because WE HAVE THE THEOLOGY 10/

Biblical authors evidently believed that the "book of nature" revealed globally-accessible truth, e.g. the Book of Proverbs also includes Egyptian wisdom 11/

So the question is less whether science checks out as truth, and more how and what is it teaching us about God and life in God's world? What does it look like to bring general revelation and special revelation into conversation with one another? 12/

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