Most impressive of the case studies he gives, though, is that of Immanuel Velikovsky, an independent scholar who first published in the 1950s. Velikovsky first started doing research to discover why an event as important as the Biblical Exodus could not be discovered in any Egyptian papyri from the time period. After exhaustive study he decided that the timeline set out by the scholars of the time was out of whack. His examinations seemed to indicate that there was plenty of evidence for the Exodus from Egyptian sources, it was just that the papyri that they were in had all been dated much earlier than they really were. By shifting these papyri back to the time frame of the Exodus and adjusting the subsequent papyri to match, he discovered that the Exodus was described in detail and that historical events mentioned in the Bible matched up with the historical events recorded in the papyri until the time of Solomon.
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I said all that to get to this point - people are beginning to become distrustful of mainstream science and it's alarming the scientists, but I think it's great. There was a video recently on a technology blog I frequent that had a scientist expressing his concern that people no longer trust scientists and that it's going to lead to a second dark age because scientific progress will cease. I cry Bull on that statement! Lest he forget, modern science was born of men questioning the establishment and seeking to discover the truths behind the universe on their own. There was a time not that long ago that for a man to blindly accept what was given to him by the leading minds without questioning it would have been unacceptable.
Fundamentally, it comes back to the fact that we are called to evaluate all doctrines, thoughts, and ideas in light of the Bible and to not blindly accept that which is given to us by the world. To accept an idea without evaluating it to see how it will effect our worldview is paramount to spiritual suicide and must be guarded against by all means necessary.
Finally...you posted something new...slacker! Great article.
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