Today science and the Bible find similar "beliefs."
1. In fact, science has come more in line with the Bible. Dennis Prager writes:
“In my lifetime alone, science went from positing a universe that always existed to positing a universe that had a beginning (the Big Bang). So, in jut one generation [the Bible], in describing a beginning to the universe, went from conflicting with science to agreeing with science….[The Bible] should not violate essential truths (for example, it accurately depicts human beings as the last creation).”
And science has come to accept that the course of life found on the earth mirrors Biblical Genesis.
It is extraordinary that the writer of the creation account in Genesis, chapter one, got it right in his exposition of the series of events: his
sequence turns out to be scientifically accurate in terms of contemporary knowledge.
2. Unavoidable is the recognition that the order of events established by modern science conform to the sequence in the first chapter of Genesis:
light from an explosion (the Big Bang),
universe/earth formed,
the seas from the cooling earth,
plants as the first life forms;
abundant sea life (the Cambrian explosion),
the (evolution) of the flora and fauna we see today.
And humans the last created.
Neat, eh?
Lucky guess by the author of the creation account of Genesis?
3. If it is not evidence for God, then the author of Genesis 1, or Moses, perhaps, must have understood that the universe formed first, then the seas appeared on earth, and that life forms were photosynthetic. Following that, he had to have realized that an eye evolved in an early animal in the geological past, which triggered the evolution of all the major groups of animals that exist today. Still further, he must have felt that all of this occurred in the seas, before animals moved onto land, and only when they did move out of the water did mammals and birds evolve.
Parker, “The Genesis Enigma,” p. 160.
And this
from folks living in the desert!
Wow! What an incredibly lucky guess! What a considerable stroke of good fortune!
The alternative explanation is divine intervention.
Kind of hard to miss the implication. “ a majority of scientists (51%) say they believe in God or a higher power, while 41% say they do not.”
What do scientists think about religion?