Daily Devotional - January 18<\/p>\n
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Christian Truth<\/p>\n
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God commanded us to \u201chave dominion over [creation].\u201d The original word translated as \u201cdominion\u201d means to study, understand, and control. This is the essence of science. So do you want to be a science detective? First, let\u2019s define science. There are two broad categories of science:\u00a0 operational and historical.<\/p>\n
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Operational (or observational) science is the type of science that one might do in a laboratory. It is about experiments that are repeatable. For example, at sea level, water will always boil at the same temperature:\u00a0 212 degrees F. Operational science builds stuff like rockets, smart phones and other inventions.<\/p>\n
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Historical science deals with what happened in the past. No scientist has a time machine. No scientist can go back into the past to perform experiments. The past cannot be directly observed or tested, so interpretations are involved. For example, suppose a dinosaur fossil is dug up. How long ago did it live? We don\u2019t know for sure. But Christians have an eye-witness report through which to interpret the present. God is the eye-witness, and He recorded it in the Bible. There was a great Flood, and this flood would have recently buried the dinosaurs that would have rapidly become fossils. But this is still historical science.<\/p>\n
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So, when you go on vacation to places like Yellowstone National Park, you will see signs such as, \u201cOver the course of 16.5 million years, approximately 15-20 massive eruptions have left immense calderas (craters) to dot the landscape\u2026\u201d, have fun separating interprtation\/historical science (millions of years) from observation\/operational science (immense calderas). Remember, it is only the observable that can be tested. All else is opinion, based on starting beliefs. Spend your next vacation being a science detective!<\/p>\n
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\u2026have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.<\/p>\n
~ Genesis 1:28b<\/p>\n
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Source: \"Pearls in Paradise\" by authors Bruce Malone and Jule Von Vett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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