The Limitations of Science to study the past
By Rhiannonw
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Science is investigation
of recorded information,
experimenting, testing theories,
giving thought to awkward queries,
and alternative suggestions,
never jumping to conclusions.
When considering the past,
science has got limitations,
looks for traces that remain,
tries to think what they may mean. –
Many fossils show death-agony,
speaking of a great catastrophe,
which makes calculations harder
for we must admit, with wonder,
age-assessment needs more knowledge,
since the modes of rock formation,
and the rates of degradation
of the chemicals we measure,
may have varied in such epochs;
also content of the rocks
when first formed, cannot be known;
– tree-trunk-fossils crossing strata
show how quickly rocky matter
was laid down around to bury them;
in some ‘fossils’ they are finding
protein, tissue still surviving,
bone unfossilised – impossible
if they’d lain there for a multiple
of millions and millions of years.
What framework for interpretation
fits this new accumulation
of unearthed facts, – Darwin’s suggestion,
or the Creator’s revelation? –
the former brings no obligation,
the latter duty and salvation.
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Is there a third option may
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You are right the science vs
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Hi Rhiannon
Hi Rhiannon
I almost decided to skip commenting on this one - because I both believe in the theory of evolution and God, and don't see the problem. You seem to think you have to make a choice. Why can't God's great plan have been to instigate the big bang and no doubt millions of other big bangs in other parts of the universe, and then let nature take its course. I know the Bible is rather specific about the order of creation and the time frame - but why couldn't God's one day be as long as a millennium or so?
Jean
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