Science and the Biblical Account of Creation - Christopher T. Baglow 

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:01 📜 The presentation addresses the intersection of faith and science in relation to the biblical accounts of creation, specifically focusing on Genesis chapter 1. 01:13 🙏 Theological foundation: Reverence for divine origin of scripture, confidence that truth can't contradict truth, and embracing scientific discoveries. 04:26 📜 Biblical inspiration: God illuminates authors' judgments, often working within their human knowledge, guided by divine understanding. 05:38 🌍 Genesis 1 as embryonic form of Christian doctrine of creation, universe's interconnectedness, and divine goodness of creation. 11:26 🌟 Contrasting Babylonian cosmology with Genesis: single God, purposeful creation, interdependence, goodness of all creatures. 15:06 🎵 Creation as a manifestation of divine rationality, interconnected days of creation, deliberate plan by an ingenious architect. 18:05 🙌 Humans as the pinnacle of God's creation, all humans created in God's image and likeness, subversion of cultural hierarchy. 21:05 ❓ Why didn't God provide accurate scientific details in scripture? Addressing the question of divine inspiration and accuracy. 24:17 ✨ Comparison to Jesus' temptations: Just as Jesus rejected spectacular displays, Genesis maintains historical context for accessibility. 26:07 🔮 Saint John Paul II's perspective: Scripture and incarnation involve flexible, nuanced language that respects human limitations. 27:32 🕰️ Genesis is often misread without seeking insight into God's nature, causing conflicts with modern science. 28:01 🌍 Genesis 1 contains the Christian doctrine of creation and a genetic code for future scientific progress. 29:12 ⏳ Genesis 1's timeline thinking challenges ancient cyclical views, highlighting real progress. 32:08 ➗ The timeline thinking in Genesis influenced the idea of salvation history and contributed to the Scientific Revolution. 34:15 🔢 The number seven is significant in Genesis, structuring the narrative and symbolizing openness and variation. 37:01 🌌 Modern science embodies order, law, and variation; it's characterized by symmetry and surprises. 39:08 🌱 Augustine's "rational seeds" concept in Genesis 1 aligns with evolution, showing natural explanations and divine design. 42:36 🧬 Genesis doesn't confine worldview but opens it up to embrace modern science, reflecting on it theologically. 43:18 📖 Genesis aims to establish the relationship between humanity, God, and the universe rather than provide a scientific treatise.

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The First Mover had no mind or any will in Aristotle's works.

Aristotle mocked all god believers.

The creation account of the Bible is symbolic, that's all. What a waist o time!

Nice try, nope.

I’m sorry to say that this video doesn’t make sense I’ll put my faith in the Bible what God wrote for he cannot lie Dr. Doug Petrovich genesis one creation. Great video on RU-vid. He has a number of videos which actually stays on point with the Bible Dr. Kurt Wise in debt study of Noah’s flood I watch this one three times I learn something every time I listen Ken Ham I agree with Ken Pastor John, MacArthur and his video about creation and science six literal days 24 hour days! Science does not conflict with the word of God.

Now, to base on the wisdom of Saint Thomas of Aquinas is not the utmost of certainty. Take his proof of the existance of God out of cause. The first cause is God which is true, but that'ts not the subject, it is to PROOF. Now in nature all causes work out things, that are also including the OWN potentials of which it works on. So all is interconnected, and this interconnexion is sufficient to explain the working without including God. However, all these things have EXISTING. But 《existing》 is an ABSOLUTE that cannot be divided. So all things participate in the ONE EXISTING. Now, THIS is proof. So how ever brilliant and admirable Aquinas indeed is, he is not infaillable... So don't built on posture, but on proof. You don't. Secondly, take Einstein and his Theorie of Relativity, which is simply hallucinating: the force of gravity diminishes the farther you are away f.i. of the center of the earth, resulting in that the farther a corpus is away, the slower it turns with the turning of the earth. No, says this very wise, i admit, but also very inscrupulous Nobelpricewinner, the farther the object is away, the slower time turns... Did he take substances? Now, how you disqualifie 《creationists》 from the start, building on an still imperfect Saint Scolar of the highest but improvable level as a i proof, and scientist of the likes of Darwin, Einstein, and other abused and abusing scientists, what i made very credible; why don't you come to your senses!

I can't imagine there is any issue between Science and Christan teaching. There is no issue with most matters in Christian teaching. The various aspects of Hebrew Bible and NT are selectively referenced to reinforce the ideology of the particular faith communion. The scared text have been subject to redaction and changes by state authorities to suit particular teaching. Eg, the closer interpretation of the Hebrew הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת of Genesis 1 is When God began to create heaven and earth. We choose another interpretation as we prefer a view that the was nothing rather something when YEWEH intervened. That is quite fine. And it also readily removes an issue with science and Church teaching.

St. Thomas Aquinas used an atheist's ideas, Aristotle.

This guy totally ignores God’s word. God says he created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. lol