Discussion about scientific issues as they relate to God and Christianity including archaeology, origins of life, the universe, intelligent design, evolution, etc.
Morny wrote:
I think the only point that Bill Nye is making here is simply that the Bible is not useful for discovering science. Science is a lot harder than reading a 2000 year old book with 21st century 20-20 hindsight.
Neil deGrasse Tyson expresses the same idea in a more pragmatic way: Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and understanding, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.
Well... Not exactly... I've stated this before.
The Bible is relevant to science in that it can furnish a conceptual framework in which science can exist. The Bible did furnish the conceptual framework in which modern science was born. Science can verify and falsify the claim of religion or the Bible. When religions make claims about the natural world, they intersect the domain of science and are in affect making predictions in which scientific investigations can either verify or falsify.
Example, science can certainly be used to falsify religion. Consider ancient Greek and Indian religions that the heavens or the world rested upon the shoulders of atlas, or on the back of a turtle were easily falsified.
Science can also verify religious claims, such as God creating the universe out of nothing a finite time ago. The Bible also teaches that the universe had a beginning. This teaching was reputed by Greeks philosophy and also by modern atheism. Then in 1929 the discovery of the expansion of the universe this doctrine was dramatically verified by the big bang theory. An entire universe created out of nothing (Ex nihilo) just like what the Bible foretold. Science can thus verify this (so called) religious prediction.
Your interpretation is probably that the Bible also teaches that homo sapiens do not share a common ancestor with other animals. But why do the vast majority of Christian scientists disagree? Those Christian scientists know that the Bible is not useful for doing science. Ask a few. You don't have to rely on Bill Nye or Neil deGrasse Tyson's word.