Doesn't modern science invalidate the Bible?

Q: "Don't scientific discoveries conflict with the Bible, even invalidate a lot of what is in the Bible?"

our A: Perhaps a surprise to many, but not to all people, science often corroborates what is already recorded in the Bible. Let's consider a few examples...

1. Species reproducing the same species. The Bible says that God created everything according to its kind (Genesis 1). Well, that's what science shows us. We can't find fossils that show a transition from species to species because there aren't any. Science shows adaptation within species (micro-evolution), but not evolutionary transition from one species to another (macro-evolution). This agrees with the Bible.

2. Human reproduction. Some people find it absurd that the entire human race might have come from just two people (Adam and Eve). However, science is about what we can observe, test. Human reproduction is observable, testable. A man and a woman can produce a third person, and so on, over time, until you get a larger population. Science corroborates this. Any other kind of human population generation has not been observed/tested by science.

3. Germs. People didn't understand the biological nature of germs until relatively recently (the last few hundred years). Yet in the Old Testament cleanliness laws and food laws, you have an obvious understanding of germs. But those instructions from God came thousands of years before man even understood how germs were transmitted, or even what they were.

4. Shape of the earth and order of the universe. The Bible talked about the "circle of the earth" long before Galileo did, when men thought the earth was flat. And before man understood astronomy, the Bible said that God had fixed the stars in the sky, keeping them in their place. Today we would say that it's gravity that does that, but again, God beat us to the punch. God is the one who put the forces in place, who gave order to the universe. And we, by His timing, have come to observe that order and understand the forces. It was this assumption (a God-ordered universe) that was the scientific starting point for many great scientists (Sir Isaac Newton for example).

The forces and the order are observable, but what has brought them about? Today scientists are looking for a grand unified field theory -- glue that brings quantum theory and astrophysics under one force/theory. Consider that God Himself is the unified field they're looking for. It is God Himself who decides that things will work differently on an astronomical level than on a microscopic level. Size is relative and irrelevant. Things should work the same on both the astronomic and the microscopic levels, but they don't. Hence we have baffled scientists trying to make sense of things, because God is not their starting point. Even if a force is discovered that explains things (like gravity), you're still left with the question of how the force got there.

The point is, if the Bible shows an understanding of medicine and science that pre-dates man's understanding of medicine and science, then we can only conclude that there is a Mind out there who is way ahead of us. Rather than try to explain Him away at every turn, the more insightful conclusion might be to acknowledge His great design and creativity. If He's there and He's real, we can't dethrone Him. He's in charge and nothing can change that. Scientific discoveries are merely observing, understanding and using systems that He has already designed. Theories attempting to discredit God's existence (like evolution from species to new species, as an attempt to explain life apart from God) are merely rabbit trails which lead to unanswered questions like, "why then don't fossil records show transitionary species?" Why not acknowledge our Creator? What God has told us in the Bible about Himself, our world and our purpose, is a great starting place to understanding this life.

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