Nothing is wrong with having a love for Science. True Science is not in conflict with the Bible. Scientists have learned that matter is a concentrated form of energy. This is demonstrated with the explosion of nuclear weapons. From where could such energy come? After asking, “Who has created these things [the stars and planets]?”, the Bible states regarding Almighty God, “Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one of them is missing.” (Isa. 40:26) So God himself is the Source of all the “dynamic energy” that was needed to create the universe. Scientific facts show that all physical creation was not accomplished in just six days or sometime within the past 6,000 to 10,000 years.
Reason on this: Light from the Andromeda nebula can be seen on a clear night in the northern hemisphere. It takes about 2,000,000 years for that light to reach the earth, indicating that the universe must be at least millions of years old. In addition to that end products of radioactive decay in rocks in the earth testify that some rock formations have been undisturbed for billions of years.
Furthermore Genesis 1:3-31 is not discussing the original creation of matter or of the heavenly bodies. It describes the preparation of the already existing earth for human habitation. This included creation of the basic kinds of vegetation, marine life, flying creatures, land animals, and the first human pair. All of this is said to have been done within a period of six “days.” However, the Hebrew word translated “day” has a variety of meanings, including ‘a long time; the time covering an extraordinary event.’ The term used allows for the thought that each “day” could have been thousands of years in length.
