Inovacije u Nastavi (Jul 2018)
Science in the Bible
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to bring together two seemingly contradictory phenomena, the Bible and science. Although the Bible is not a book dealing with science, the facts mentioned in the Bible that are the subject of scientific research are not contradictory to science. The difference is that the writers of the Bible had stated these facts many centuries before science confirmed them. There is almost no scientific field that was not dealt with in some way in the Bible. We have opted for the passages that most clearly represent the link between science and the Bible. The readers are first informed about the correlation between science and religion, and then the paper focuses on the relationship between science and the Bible. The Bible contains accurate scientific facts related to the fields of astronomy, geology, astrophysics, mathematics, medicine, physics, biology, hydrology, climatology, biometrics, anthropology, and other fields of research. The claim that the Bible does not contradict science has been demonstrated on a wide spectrum of scientific fields. We believe that such topics are especially useful for teachers of various school subjects and teachers of religion who work in a common education system and also have common general teaching objectives. Informing children about the links between science and religion would make it possible for them to understand the views of the world which, although different, are simultaneously firmly
