Some believers in God, especially those who read Genesis 1-3 literally, find their faith threatened by the discoveries and theories of science (especially evolution and genetics). I continue to believe in the aphorism that “truth is truth” and so we have nothing to fear from the discoveries of science. But then I’m also not a biblical literalist when it comes to Genesis 1-3. I find God does provide us a way to understand scientific truth and in fact all knowledge in the book known as the WISDOM OF SOLOMON.
The Wisdom of Solomon is found in those Christian Bibles based in the Septuagint (for example, THE ORTHODOX STUDY BIBLE). The Septuagint is the Greek language version of the Jewish Scriptures (which the Jews themselves had translated into the Greek a couple hundred years before the birth of Jesus).
The Septuagint is the version of Jewish Scriptures most often quoted and read by the New Testament and Post-Apostolic writers, and is the official version of the Old Testament accepted by the Orthodox Church. In this scripture, we find the Wisdom of God which says scientific knowledge too is given to us by the Lord. Truth and knowledge, especially that of creation are not opposed to the Truth of God’s revelation – they are the same Truth!
Ever since the creation of the world God’s eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. (Romans 1:20)
It is not only scientific knowledge which has been granted to us from God, even the skills, arts and craftsmanship which humans have perfected are seen in the Scriptures as coming from God as well! Proverbs 6:6-10 tells us we can even learn wisdom from the tiny ant.
Wisdom of Solomon 7:15-21
May God grant me to speak according to His purpose,
and to have thoughts worthy of what I have received;
for he is the guide even of wisdom
and the corrector of the wise.
For both we and our words are in his hand,
as are all understanding and skill in crafts.
For it is he who gave me unerring knowledge of what exists,
to know the structure of the world and the activity of the elements;
the beginning and end and middle of times,
the alternations of the solstices and the changes of the seasons,
the cycles of the year and the constellations of the stars,
the natures of animals and the tempers of wild animals,
the force of the winds and the thoughts of human beings,
the varieties of plants and the virtues of roots;
And to know both what is hidden and what is manifest,
For Wisdom the artisan of all things taught me.
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