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Source: Popper's Philosophy of Science

the hypothesis that Earth is the center of the universe was held to be true in early science

a long time ago in a far away land, it was believed that Earth was the center of the universe. That was the accepted theory of the day.

Not just religious.

Once Darwin presented the evolution theory did science spend as much time trying to prove it wrong as they do trying to prove it right? Thats what testing a theory is all about. Testing for errors as well as truth. From what I see science is spending a lot of effort to find the missing link and ignoring the evidence that the theory is flawed.

The bible, in my opinion, is a very valuable source of scientific information. No doubt it is in fact our oldest source of information. But because it has a religious origin most science ignores its truths and refuses to see its value in teaching science. The bible has a religious flavor because of the period it was composed but that doesn't take away from the fact most of it is true.

Those of science that see the bible as more than a religious book have found it is based in fact. By that I mean if you look past the reference to a superior being used to explain why an event happened, you find the even itself did in fact happen. Jericho, for example, did exist as the bible describes and science has found a catastrophic event was how it met its demise. Just because a lack of understanding at the period uses a religious event to describe the why and how doesn't mean the event didn't happen.

If you think about it the bible and Darwin aren't so far off on their ideas of the beginning. In fact depending on your view the bible is probably more accurate. If you look past the religious influence, again a result of the period, the bible is saying the human race had a single source beginning. Where Darwin and the bible differ is that Darwin believed ALL life forms had a single source beginning, whereas the bible says the human race had a single beginning(Adam) but not the same source as other life on earth. Since people of the time thought God was in Heaven they are in fact saying we were created from the heavens. I happen to agree.

In the period God's were used to explain most events they couldn't explain. Its important to put the bible in the proper context of time.

I believe if science would take of its anti-religious blinders they could learn a lot for our oldest source of information. The bible. I also see nothing wrong with using the source in school. Not to teach that god is responsible for the destruction of Jericho, but that Jericho was in fact a real place destroyed by a real event.