Science and religion are two entirely different things, right? It can be explained this way: Science tells how thing work, and religion tells how things work together.
So, science is about the world, the planets, and the stars; and about how the natural world functions. Science has some pretty good answers, too, giving us insights into the workings of the universe and how we fit into it.
Religion, however, is how we find purpose in the universe, revealing the meaning of life; and about how we can make our existence count. Religion is the binder that helps all the rest to make sense.
Never the twain shall meet!
Except…except that the Bible doesn’t disagree with science. Let’s look at Isaiah 40:22 for our proof:
“It is he who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grass hoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.”
This passage is very poetic by most people’s standards. It is couched in symbolism and allusion. It paints a pretty picture by describing something not quite real.
Except…except, everything this verse says is right on the money, scientifically speaking.
Picture the words from God’s viewpoint. He sits upon (above) the circle of the earth. This tells us that the earth is round when viewed from space. As late as the 16th century, our world was considered by many scholars to be flat. Yet, when Isaiah wrote this passage two thousand years earlier, he already had the scientific truth recorded accurately.
The curtain the Lord spreads across the heavens is the atmosphere surrounding our globe. The cloth in a curtain behaves with fluidic properties, and that’s exactly what our atmosphere does, undulating and wrapping the surface of our world completely. A famous experiment in Regensburg, Germany, in the 17th century proved beyond doubt that air exists. Yet, Isaiah knew that in 712 BC.
The reference to a tent describes the protection we receive from our atmosphere. Just as a tent protects us from the sun’s damaging rays, the ozone layer absorbs 98 percent of the sun’s UV rays. The ozone layer wasn’t discovered until 1913 by French physicists. Yet, Isaiah knew its purpose millennia earlier.
In all this, we are the grasshoppers, roaming to and fro, and taking advantage of the goodness of our gracious God. Yet, we find science even in this description. Modern day mobile phones, television, cars, and airplanes allow us to “hop” all over, covering the earth in leaps and bounds, just as the grasshopper does.
It’s all science, found in the Word, our Bible, our Book of Science. It may not be a textbook by educational standards, filled with theorems and formulas, but the science is there, in each and every line.
There is no contradiction between science and religion. They are mutually beneficial, mated each to the other, and we can find God in both.
The Bible includes science on every page. Now it’s time for science to find God as he proves himself in the natural world.
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