Biblical Principles: Rational and Scientific

In many ways, Biblical principles are more rational than modern atheist “scientism” and modern nihilist social movements such as “transgender”.

A Biblical believer is not required to believe claims that conflict with rationality, such as somehow the Universe could have created itself, or that a person can “transform” themselves to a different gender than the one they were born with, or that a marriage can be constituted by two men or two women.

This is not to say that Man can solve all his own problems purely by “rationalism”, but rationality is a necessary component for civilization to maintain itself.

Although the Jewish Bible is intended as an ethical guidebook for Man, and not as a science textbook, the basic sequence of events that were explained in Genesis using simple language so that all could understand, are perfectly compatible with advanced modern science.

“The waters shall team with swarms of living creatures (sheretzim). . .”1

The basic sequence of events described at the beginning of the Biblical book of Genesis are actually quite consistent with modern scientific evidence:

1. The Universe did not exist forever and had a beginning in the finite past.

2. According to Maimonides (12th century CE) we cannot know exactly when the Universe was created because time itself was created. As mentioned earlier, this idea is also expressed in a modern astrophysics textbook.

3. The initial Universe, described as unformed matter in Genesis 1:2 was an extremely tiny point of formless matter.2

4. All the matter in the Universe was initially created (Genesis 1:1) and the components of the Universe were gradually separated.3

5. The verse in Genesis 1:20 explains that the first animals that appeared on Earth were various types of swarming marine invertebrate. This is consistent with the scientific evidence of the “Cambrian explosion” where many phyla of animals suddenly appeared on Earth without a gradual evolution from more simple animals. This evidence actually confirms the Biblical account and actually disproves Darwinist evolution.

6. The Biblical account is describing how God caused a gradual increase in complexity of the lifeforms. This was a gradual, metaphysical upward increase in biological complexity over time that was NOT due to Darwinism.

7. The Biblical account describes how Man (as we know him) is the most complex creature and was created last and very recently4. Thus recorded human history is much shorter than the age of the Universe.