Genesis is Old
Debates continue about the exact period in which the book of Genesis was written. But current research based on the Dead Sea Scrolls suggests that Genesis was written anywhere from 1500 to 1200 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. This means that the book of Genesis is well over 3000 years old.
Modern Science is Much Newer
According to many historians, the scientific revolution started around 1543 when the scientist Copernicus published the book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres about the sun being the center of the universe instead of the earth. Since then, scientific discoveries have gradually accelerated. Science can now explain in a fairly reliable way the history of our earth and universe.
The Old Describes the New
What is not widely known yet is that the descriptions in the first chapter of Genesis can be shown to be in increasing harmony with how science now describes the history of our earth and universe. A major goal of this website is to explain this harmony between Genesis 1 and science in a way that is understandable to as many people as possible.
The Logic is Profound
Putting this evidence together, the logic is easy (and very profound).
- In the last 500 years scientists have found truths about the history of our earth and universe that no human had previously known.
- Genesis was written thousands of years before science made these discoveries about our earth and universe.
- With an understanding of the Hebrew word yom, the point of view given in Genesis 1:2, and the appropriate use of metaphor, then objective truths of science are increasingly in harmony with the Genesis 1 descriptions.
- The reasonable conclusion is straightforward: the descriptions in Genesis chapter 1, written thousands of years ago, must be from the Creator of the universe. Who else but the Creator could correctly describe the events and their sequence from billions of years ago, as now described by science?
Furthermore, the Bible is the only ancient text where the Creator has chosen to reveal a history of our earth and universe that harmonizes so well with science. So, this gives a unique authority to the Bible and its stories and teachings.