Sproul: When Scripture & Science clash
Words (Photo credit: tempestuousseas ) In this series, we have been discussing Dr. R.C. Sproul's answer to a question about the age of the universe during the Q&A at Ligonier's 2012 National Conference. In our last post , we looked at Calvin's distinction between knowledge of earthly things and heavenly things in order to understand why Dr. Sproul and other Reformed theologians say that the church can learn from unbelieving scientists . In this post, we need to look at what Christians should do when science and Scripture seem to conflict. In his concluding remarks, Dr. Sproul made the following important statements: However, if something can be shown to be definitively taught in the Bible without questioning, and somebody gives me a theory from natural revelation—that they think is based off of natural revelation—that contradicts the Word of God , I'm going to stand with the Word of God a hundred times out of a hundred. But again I have to repeat, I