Obviously the Bible wasn’t written as a science book. It’s a book about God’s dealings with human beings. You’ve probably also been told that the two camps, the Bible camp and the science camp, will never be able to get along. They’re going to be strange bedfellows and kind of ornery toward each other nonstop.

It’s understandable to a certain measure because a scientist says, "If I can’t demonstrate and replicate a phenomenon in my laboratory, I refuse to believe it to be so." Well, someone on the theological side starts from the position of saying, "With God in the equation, all things are possible, the sky is the limit, laboratory or no laboratory, replication or no replication."

Let me cite some common ground that is forming. First, some scientists are finally admitting that an outside power of some kind was probably necessary to kickstart the forming of this universe. Some scientists are finally admitting that the old equation: space + time + chance = the possibility of the start of the universe, that you’d have to wait a long, long time for nothing plus nothing plus nothing to produce anything.

The creation account of the universe is no longer considered preposterous in the scientific community as it was not that many years back. There’s some common ground slowly forming here.

• You might have heard that the Bible is full of scientific errors, but contrary to what you have heard, no real mistake has ever been demonstrated in the Bible, in science, in history, or in any other subject

• While the Bible is not a scientific textbook, it can be stated clearly that when the Bible does speak directly about matters of science, it speaks correctly   

• Many principles of modern science were talked about in the Bible before they were discovered experimentally. Think about this: before we discovered certain things to be true, the Bible already recorded them as true

For instance:

• No new matter is being formed – Genesis 2:2, "By  the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done."

• Roundness of the earth – (Isaiah 40:22) “He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in. “
• Hydrologic cycle – (Ecclesiastes 1:7) “All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.”

• Law of increasing entropy (Psalm 102:25-27)

• Paramount importance of blood in life processes (Leviticus 17:11)
• Atmospheric circulation (Ecclesiastes 1:6)
• Gravitational field (Job 26:7)
• Human body is made up of elements of the earth  (Genesis 2:7)
• Oceanic currents (Jonah 2:3)
• Oceanic mountains are discovered 3,000 years before there was sonar or ocean mapping (Jonah 2:6)

Back in the Book of Genesis, 1:24, the Bible says that living creatures — listen carefully — will reproduce after their own kind, and only after their own kind. Of course, for the last 200 years, scientists with an evolutionary bent have been desperately trying to show evidence for any kind of reproduction that would indicate a gradual evolution from one lower kind of living thing to a higher form of living thing — change within the species.

The whole concept of evolution depends on showing this kind of phenomenon. But listen to what paleontologist, Stephen J. Gould, recently wrote: "Species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they finally disappear." And he’s an agnostic scientist.

Not a single scientific discovery has ever disputed an important biblical fact.

Maybe you have never taken the Bible and then did a comparative analysis with history or science or other truth sources of other religions to come to an informed position on this. A lot of people don’t do their homework about the things I’m talking about because, you know, it’s a lot easier to take pot shots at the Bible, to repeat phrases and slogans tossed around by fellow cynics.

How responsible is it to hold a position but never having done your homework?"