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Also rumbling around inside my head were vaguely remembered statistics from various sources that insisted that half of America believes in the literal story of creation that appears in Genesis. I wonder if they came from school systems that didn’t require any science classes!
Eighth grade science classes are one of God’s greatest gifts to us. So are high school chemistry, biology, and physics, plus all their college-level extensions on into the levels of postgraduate research. Science and mathematics, in fact, are two of God’s greatest gifts to us, because, through them, you and I can discern incredible insights into God’s awesome creativity. I hope you were paying attention in those classes.
It is probably obvious that I was, and sometimes still am, a student of the sciences. It is probably also obvious that I take the Bible so incredibly seriously that I cannot take it literally- not when it comes to God’s revelations. If I took the Bible’s science seriously I would have to believe that the earth was flat, that the great big blue universe was filled with water, and that the sun, stars, and planets twirled around us, because we are the center of the universe. If I believed in Biblical science I would also have to acknowledge that wildfires, storms, pestilence, earthquakes, and even tsunamis are specifically cooked up by God, usually as punishment. I would also have to believe that the fossils of dinosaur bones were planted here by God as a test of the faith of an innocent young geologist named Charles Darwin.

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