What if the Bible was written as a scientific text?
That is, if we assume that there is/was a sentient being called "God" who created the entire universe from scratch, if He was to write a scientific paper on how He did it, what do you suppose it would look like?
I'd imagine it would contain a lot of technobabble that would embarrass Star Trek's scriptwriters and likely be incomprehensible to even the most brilliant scientific minds.
After all, creating an entire universe from nothing is still beyond our scientific and technological capabilities.
An analogous situation might be a scientist from today going back 2000 years and explaining how to build a rocket or split the atom. The people wouldn't understand it at all, but if someone wrote it down verbatim and saved it for posterity, it might be quite impressive just the same.
If that was the case, would the Bible be more believable? If Genesis was written in scientific detail, with charts, graphs, scientific equations that no one from that long ago could have come up with on their own, could that, in and of itself, be considered evidence for God?
That is, if we assume that there is/was a sentient being called "God" who created the entire universe from scratch, if He was to write a scientific paper on how He did it, what do you suppose it would look like?
I'd imagine it would contain a lot of technobabble that would embarrass Star Trek's scriptwriters and likely be incomprehensible to even the most brilliant scientific minds.
After all, creating an entire universe from nothing is still beyond our scientific and technological capabilities.
An analogous situation might be a scientist from today going back 2000 years and explaining how to build a rocket or split the atom. The people wouldn't understand it at all, but if someone wrote it down verbatim and saved it for posterity, it might be quite impressive just the same.
If that was the case, would the Bible be more believable? If Genesis was written in scientific detail, with charts, graphs, scientific equations that no one from that long ago could have come up with on their own, could that, in and of itself, be considered evidence for God?