Lecture: Isn't the Bible Separate From the Scientific Method

This short segment illustrates a typical evidentiary approach to apologetics that, though well-meaning, grants too much to the opponents of Christianity.  The evidentiary approach assumes that anybody who examines all of the evidence with an open mind will necessarily arrive at a position in concord with the Biblical worldview.

This approach puts God in the dock and assumes that unbelieving man is able to evaluate truth objectively.   The Christian should challenge the alleged neutrality of the scientific method by pointing out such serious flaws as:

     1) Less than 25% of scientific studies are replicable

     2) The concept of "Peer Review" is flawed because few are willing to risk endorsing any unorthodox conclusions outside the Overton Window that challenge the status quo  

     3) Almost all research is funded by Big Business or Big government.  Neither will suffer long with any renegade researcher who does not confirm their vested interests.

     4) The Pressure to Publish leads inevitably to falsification of data in far too many cases.

     5) Supposed objective measurements are notoriously flawed.

     6) Two people can look at the same data set independently and draw different conclusions 

The video is correct in pointing out that the Bible does in fact, present many scientific first principles that should guide our research.  Part of God's joy in creation was to place man and woman in an undeveloped environment with the command to "subdue" it. 

But the scientific method apart from God's revelation leads to a mechanistic, absentee clock-maker view of the universe that dramatically discounts God's intimate involvement with and animation of His creation. 

For those who still claim the Bible is unscientific, we have a concise summary of the Hydrologic Cycle in Psalm 135:7.  This Cycle was not detected by modern science until thousands of years after Psalms was penned:

"He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings for the rain; who brings forth the wind from His treasuries." (Ps 135:7).

“The hydrologic cycle begins with the evaporation of water from the surface of the ocean. As moist air is lifted, it cools and water vapor condenses to form clouds. Moisture is transported around the globe until it returns to the surface as precipitation.”

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