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muriel_volestrangler

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11. "modern science owes a great deal to the biblical worldview" - what tosh
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 09:08 AM
Nov 2017
It also addresses debates about whether the Bible and science are “mutually exclusive”: “There is broad agreement today among historians that modern science owes a great deal to the biblical worldview,” reads a sign near a sculpture of astronomer and physicist Isaac Newton holding a compass. “The idea that the natural world is orderly springs from the Bible.”

http://religionnews.com/2017/11/13/in-the-capitols-shadow-massive-museum-of-the-bible-readies-for-opening/

I think many cultures outside Judaism and Christianity will dispute that last claim strongly. Greek philosophy did not spring from the Bible. Neither did Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese and Indian mathematics, Aztec beliefs ...

Here's the biblical worldview on science:

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202

Moral of the 2nd chapter: knowledge is bad for you.

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2011

Moral of the 11th chapter: Technological advance must be stopped.

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which bible? there are so many different ones from which to choose nt msongs Nov 2017 #1
THE TRUE ONE Angry Dragon Nov 2017 #2
Read the article for more of the story. eom guillaumeb Nov 2017 #3
The original - the King James Bible! Canoe52 Nov 2017 #6
That's actually fairly obvious. Igel Nov 2017 #10
Green family project, Hobby Lobby case bobbieinok Nov 2017 #4
The Hobby Lobby issue is discussed in the article. guillaumeb Nov 2017 #5
Make no mistake... this is an attemp to force the Green family's... Raster Nov 2017 #7
From all I've heard about them you are quite right bobbieinok Nov 2017 #8
It sure is. trotsky Nov 2017 #13
Interesting that they include this: Girard442 Nov 2017 #9
"modern science owes a great deal to the biblical worldview" - what tosh muriel_volestrangler Nov 2017 #11
Oh yeah, this is the work of the right-wing Hobby Lobby owners. trotsky Nov 2017 #12
It's almost as if someone is promoting a Right Wing talking point... NeoGreen Nov 2017 #15
Not the first time right-wing Christians and their projects have been promoted here. trotsky Nov 2017 #19
Begging for something? guillaumeb Nov 2017 #20
It's not me sir, it is not me who needs to look deep into the mirror. (nt) NeoGreen Nov 2017 #22
2000 languages Cartoonist Nov 2017 #14
I guess that means Roy Moore... NeoGreen Nov 2017 #16
Including everyone who can't read anything in any language, right? Mariana Nov 2017 #17
Contains stolen and fake artifacts. Voltaire2 Nov 2017 #18
The article did mention that issue. guillaumeb Nov 2017 #21
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