Steinbach Bible Institute - Star Yearbook (Steinbach, Manitoba Canada)

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26 RTEINBACH BIBLE ACADEMY YEAR BOOK Science and the Scriptures The Bible is the most read book in the world, yet it is the most misunderstood book too. This Book claims to be true and claims to contain the very words of God. Skeptics may disagree with this fact and may try to prove their point by saying that the Bible is not in harmony with science. There are others who say, “because the Bible is not written in scientific langu¬ age it is not necessarily in agreement with science.” But we find that even though the Book d ' oes not use many “high sounding” words, with Latin origins, it does contain scientific facts and is true to science throughout. We shall look at a few points to show that the Bible is true. An important argument for the Bible is that it does not contain the errors of science that existed in the cultures of the time of the Bible authors. For example, archeologists have found on clay tablets writings of the scholars of ancient Egypt. These wise men, who were evolutionists, believed that at one time there was a wing¬ ed egg, flying around in space and from it the earth hatched. They explain the origin of men thus: In the slime of the Nile River lived white worms. These worms were be¬ lieved to have evolved, after a long time, into what we now call human beings. The wise men of Egypt had evidently seen worms change to butterflies and they ap¬ parently based their theory upon this fact. According to Acts 7:22 Moses “was learn¬ ed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.” Moses was the writer of the first five books of the Bible and is the one who writes about the beginning of the World. But when we turn to Gen. 1:1 we find he writes nothing about the winged egg but writes, In the beginning God created hea¬ ven and the earth.” Then in verse 27 of the same chapter we read, “God created man.” We cannot help but agree with the Apostle Peter when he says, “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Pet. 1:21). Everyone, except a comparatively small number of infidels, to¬ day say that there is a God who created the world. Considering the wonders of modern sci¬ ence we cannot deny that it has made great progress in the last half century. But still more astounding is the remarkable way in which recent discoveries have been portray¬ ed in the Bible. For many years Bible crit¬ ics based their arguments against the Bible on Gen. 22:17 where God compares the number of stars with the number of grains of sand on the sea shore. Until recently it was believed that there were only a few thousand stars. Why, you can have that grains of sand in a few handfuls. But now through the newest and largest telescopes, men have seen millions of stars which were previously not known to exist. Astronomers now say it is quite probable that the num¬ ber of grains of sand equal the number of stars. Now let us turn to Isaiah 40:22. Here we find a fact that was “proved” less than 500 years ago by Magellan, in 1519. We read of the “circle of the earth” in a book that was written hundreds of years before Christ, yet till the time of Magellan most people believed that it was flat. Isaiah could never have recorded such truth if God had not guided his pen. In Job, chapter 38, verse 7 God speaks of the time when “the morning stars sang together.” Bible critics once said “Of course the stars don’t sing.” Now physicists have found that light, color and sound are fun¬ damentally the same. The differences are mainly wave lengths and frequency. Scien¬ tists have discovered that each light ray has a tonal value which changes with the changes of color. If our Creator had tuned our ears t ' o hear those tones, we could listen to the songs of the stars. “Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, here we are?” This was a question God asked Job who had to answer, no. But were he living in the twentieth century, he could have answered, yes. Now we can send lightnings or elec¬ tricity which bring messages to far bff places. The telephone can now carry our words along wires for thousands of miles at an unbelievable speed. Radio is even more wonderful. It carries the voice around the world. In the same time that the human voice travels thirteen feet, radio will carry it a thousand miles. In fact, it is possible to send a message to any part of the world and receive a reply in one and a half se¬ conds! Did Job ever think of such possibil¬ ities? No, but God did! It is true that man has accomplished much in solving scientific problems of to¬ day, but it seems that the more problems scientists solve, the more they find still unsolved. Everyone is ready to admit that in past years men of science had many false ideas, but it is harder to realize how many wrong theories there still are, which have to be done away with. In the places where the Bible disagrees with today’s man-made theories, it is not because the Bible has not caught up with science, but rather, that science has not yet caught up with the Bible! These and many other scientific proofs are contained in the Word of God. Glen Reimer. ★