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But Does it Move? John Lennox on Science and the Bible
Taken from Chapter 2 of John Lennox's book Seven Days That Divide The World, this three part series looks at scripture interpretation. Lennox looks especially at the Galileo controversy regarding the movement of the Earth and why our own interpretations do not necessarily call into question the authority of the Scripture.
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But Does it Move? John Lennox on Science and the Bible
It would be a pity if, in a desire to treat the Bible as more than a book, we ended up treating it as less than a book by not permitting it the range and use of language, order, and figures of speech that are familiar to us from our ordinary experience of conversation and reading.
But Does It Move? Part 2
Rather than scientific language, the Bible often uses what is called phenomenological language—the language of appearance. It describes what anyone can see. Saying that the sun “rises” does not commit the Bible, or a scientist for that matter, to any particular model of the solar system.
But Does it Move? Part 3
The Galileo incident teaches us that we should be humble enough to distinguish between what the Bible says and our interpretations of it. The biblical text might just be more sophisticated than we first imagined, and we might therefore be in danger of using it to support ideas that it never intended to teach.