Science needs a literal interpretation of the Bible :
One
of the many ways that God ( The Supernatural Creator of The Universe )
has revealed Himself is through His Word . These 66 books that make up
what we call The Bible , have been the inspiration and guidance into
Scientific study for centuries . True Science , that which is testable ,
observable and repeatable ( the empirical method... ) was and always will be understood fully by a literal interpretation of His Word .
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Stephen Snobelen, Assistant Professor of History of Science and Technology,
University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada
Here is a final paradox. Recent work on early modern science has
demonstrated a direct (and positive) relationship between the resurgence
of the Hebraic, literal exegesis of the Bible in the Protestant
Reformation, and the rise of the empirical method in modern science. I’m
not referring to wooden literalism, but the sophisticated
literal-historical hermeneutics that Martin Luther and others (including
Newton) championed. It was, in part, when this method was transferred
to science, when students of nature moved on from studying nature as
symbols, allegories and metaphors to observing nature directly in an
inductive and empirical way, that modern science was born. In this,
Newton also played a pivotal role. As strange as it may sound, science
will forever be in the debt of millenarians and biblical literalists.
Isaac Newton and Apocalypse Now: a response to Tom Harpur’s Newton’s
strange bedfellows; A longer version of the letter published in the
Toronto Star, 26 February 2004.
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