Scientists should include God in their experiments by trusting His Word first - because God knows more than we do. If they get results that seem to contradict the revealed truth of God, they should take advantage of the information that God has given us as evidence that something was wrong with their experiment or their interpretation of the results.
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The New Testament says that the mustard seed is the smallest seed. If botanists discover a smaller seed, should they just believe that they imagined it, or mindfuck themselves into believing that it doesn't exist?
Okay, I'll bite.... how would a scientist do that? Read the Bible before getting to work?
Dear God, we are going to the Galapogos Islands for a few years to see if there is any real evidence for evolution. We plan on doing a study of the Finches there and how climatic and environmental changes have an effect on them . Please guide us in our study.
People tried it your way for hundreds of years and it only lead to taking one step backward for every one and a half steps forward (it would've all been backward had it not been for a few good people). Only they didn't just assume the bible was true. Instead they expanded it to numerous ancient texts and ideas. For example, how could it be possible that there were more elements that fire, water, earth, and air? For such a great ancient philosopher to be wrong was unthinkable! Those evildoers who would make up such nonsense about hydrogen and other elements needed their darn eyes checked!
<< Scientists should include God in their experiments by trusting His Word first - because God knows more than we do. >>
I favour the purely agnostic approach here - even if God did exist, his infinite knowledge of all reality would still be worth diddly-squat unless he could express it in a slightly more direct way than anyone might try to show it is in his "word", ie the Bible. Anything on quantum theory in there? Thermofluid mechanics? Relativity? Properties of semiconductors? Germ theory of disease? Newtonian mechanics? Has any scientific breakthrough or beneficial invention, in the whole of recorded history, ever been directly inspired by fundamental laws laid down, unambiguously, in a religious text?
<<Has any scientific breakthrough or beneficial invention, in the whole of recorded history, ever been directly inspired by fundamental laws laid down, unambiguously, in a religious text?>>
To be fair the Word of God isn't necessarily the Bible, he doesn't claim this. I mean, if the sky opened up and a voice came down from the sky (and was audible to more than one person at a time) you'd be pretty hard pressed not to believe it. Unfortunately, God doesn't seem to be too interested in helping us out with working out how the world works.
Science DID start by assuming that God's word was correct. But time, and a LOT of experiements, drew us away from those initial, incorrect hypotheses, and to the state of science we have today.
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