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A reference guide to the Bible and science: sources, evidence, and arguments.
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69 articles in 11 topics. Last updated .
The Bible
Examine the Bible's origins, contents, and claims.
- Theology5 articlesAtonement, prayer, election and free will, suffering, and the Trinity.
- Authorship & Origins5 articlesWho wrote the Gospels, Paul's letters, and the Torah — and when.
- Textual Criticism4 articlesContradictions, anachronisms, later additions, and manuscript variants.
- History5 articlesThe exodus, the conquest, and the birth and resurrection accounts against the archaeological record.
- Morality3 articlesDifficult commands, biblical slavery, and human sacrifice.
Science
Evidence from evolution, human origins, geology, dating methods, cosmology, and what the Bible says about the natural world.
- The Bible on Science5 articlesWhat scripture says about the shape of the earth, the sky above it, and the age of the world.
- Evolution14 articlesCommon descent, speciation, fossils, genomes, development, and the design arguments raised against them.
- Human Evolution7 articlesThe evidence for evolution applied to our own species: hominin fossils, chromosome 2, retroviral insertions, broken genes, and ancient DNA.
- Geology9 articlesHow rock layers record time — sedimentation, tectonics, and glacial cycles — and whether a single year-long flood can account for them.
- Dating Methods8 articlesRadiometric dating, tree rings, ice cores, varves, and how independent methods agree.
- Physics & Cosmology4 articlesThe Big Bang, distant starlight, cosmic fine-tuning, and thermodynamics.