Top 12 Reasons Atheism = Stupidity (#10)

(This is my revised version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" renamed "The 12 Days of Atheism = Stupidity" -- it's basically the top 12 reasons why atheism is so securely grounded in stupidity -- the song goes like this...)

On the tenth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me...

Science

It's nice to see Catholics and Fundamentalist Protestants starting to come together on the age of the Earth and how to interpret the Biblical account of Creation written in the book of Genesis.

Pat Robertson of the 700 Club/Christian Broadcasting Network recently remarked "I know people will probably lynch me for this, but Bishop (James) Ussher, God bless him, wasn't inspired by the Lord when he said it all took 6,000 years. It just didn't." Ussher was a 17th century clergyman who first argued that the Earth was created in 4004 BC.

Pope John Paul II put it this way: "The Bible itself speaks to us of the origin of the universe and its make-up, not in order to provide us with a scientific treatise, but in order to state the correct relationship of man with God and with the universe. Sacred Scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expresses itself in the terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer."

None of this contradicts the fact that the entire Bible (both Old and New testaments) is:

1) Inspired by the Holy Spirit
2) Inerrant in the original manuscripts
3) The infallible and authoritative Word of God

You might ask, "How can the Earth be 4.5 billion years old while at the same time the entire Bible is inerrant and infallible?" It's because the Bible isn't a book about science. The Bible is a book about faith, religion and a relationship with God.

The Bible doesn't contain any mistakes, and the Bible never has to be corrected. The thing is this... scientific data and Sacred Scripture both have to be interpreted by human beings -- and human beings make a lot of mistakes.

There's nothing incompatible between science and the Bible. For example, if the theory of evolution appears to be incompatible with the Bible, then maybe the theory of evolution is wrong (more likely, though, it's not that the theory of evolution is "wrong" but that the theory of evolution is "incomplete" -- and the theory of evolution will remain "incomplete" until it is in perfect alignment with the inerrant and infallible Word of God written in the Bible).