Posted by Lydia [Lydia] on November 24, 1999 at 20:31:52 {BlpRHB6gpcWtz9jxpbEA9zTF4zIKTo}:
Dear DaJahVeu & One Glove,
I have noticed your debate on the board. I would like you to consider a different view.
A physicist by the name of Gerald L. Schroeder has written an interesting book called "Genesis and the Big Bang", published by Bantam Books.
A few months ago I had occasion to hear him speak. I have to say that he has some concepts to think about.
The following is on the back of the book:
“The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible”
“Here is a ground-breaking book that takes on skeptics from both sides of the cosmological debate, arguing that science and the Bible are not at odds concerning the origin of the universe.
The culmination of a physicist’s thirty-five year journey from MIT to Jerusalem, Genesis and the Big Bang presents a compelling argument that the events of the billions of years that cosmologists say followed the Big Bang and those of the first six days described in Genesis are, in fact, one and the same-identical realities described in vastly different terms. In engaging, accessible language, Dr. Schroeder reconciles the observable facts of science with the very essence of Western religion: the biblical account of Creation.
Carefully reviewing and interpreting accepted scientific principles, analogous passages of Scripture, and biblical scholarship, Dr. Schroeder arrives at a conclusion so lucid that one wonders why it has taken this long in coming. The result for the reader--whether believer or skeptic, Jewish or Christian—-is a totally fresh understanding of the key events in the life of the universe.”
I have just started the book and it’s an interesting read. You may want to check it out too.
Lydia