Bible vs. Science Q. What should I do when I get confused about
what the Bible says and what science says? For instance,
scientists say dinosaurs lived millions of years before humans,
but the Bible says the Earth was created in six days and man was
created during that time. How do I know what to believe? A.
Remember this saying of the early church: "All truth is God's
truth." That means that if we understand the Bible correctly,
and if we understand scientific data correctly, they will not
contradict each other. God is the author of both scriptural
truth and scientific truth. It's easy to misunderstand the
Bible. We can't as humans fully understand it. The account of
creation in Genesis may mean that God created the world in six
24-hour days. It might also be metaphoric, meaning that the
"days" of creation represented a much longer period of time-as 2
Peter 3:8 says, "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years"
(NIV). The Bible's account might not rule out the possibility
that dinosaurs roamed the earth be