Once it got over the embarrassment regarding Galileo, Christianity has developed a legacy of encouraging scientific research, building on the belief that all of nature is God’s creation. Through modern science, Christians are becoming increasingly aware of how their God crafted the universe around them. Hundreds of years of research in geology, paleontology, biology, and many other fields have produced abundant evidence that the earth is billions of years old and that fossils and geological features formed through many processes over eons of time. Additionally, the flood story is FILLED with hyperbole that would have been recognized by its ancient audience as a figurative description of an event in order to produce an effect and make a point, and NOT an example of literal history or accurate science.
