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Quote by: Kite  The difference is that the religious explanations are from 2000 years ago and never updated, while science tries to keep itself up to date with the latest findings. The bible says the reason the bird can fly is because God made it that way, the scientific reason is that it has wings and that its bones are hollow. |
The bible's purpose is not to explain the processes of the natural world even though it literally does. The people that interpret it this way are naive and ignorant to the concept of reading the bible as a metaphoric tool for understanding the omniscient presence of a higher power. I wish I could find the quote, but St. Augustine said it is an assault of both texts, the bible and the science book, to read either as a means of understanding the topic of the other.
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"Test all things; hold fast what is good"
-- Thessalonians 5:21
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Many instances in the bible itself warn readers to not read the bible as a literal representation of reality. The problem arises from the ignorant that read the bible thinking it is completely concrete in its meaning. This is just as atrocious as a scientist reading a science textbook and believing that it can perceived as a deduction to the abstract. The bible does explain natural processes, but it is not meant to be taken literally. Case and point Ken Miller: "God is my rock. Really? Is he a sedimentary rock or what?" The purpose of both the scientific and religious texts are often mistaken due to reading either solely on a superficial level.