I’m fine with science verifying things we find in the Bible… it seems to happen nearly every day.  What I don’t like is when people try to use science to prove things in the Bible were normal happenings and had nothing to do with God.

First off, why bother?  If you don’t believe in the story of creation, for example, why try to explain a big bang that created everything?  Why fight against those you consider nut jobs that want to believe in a higher power?  Why, above all, say things like “This may be the explanation of the story in Genesis” if you don’t even believe the story in Genesis at all?  It’s like me trying to prove that cats won’t eat green ham and eggs or something!

Case in point, last night was a rare astronomical thing - the moon, Jupiter and Venus were so close in the sky they caught the attention of people that don’t even study the sky - like me.  The news article this morning on one of the news sites liked to by Google News says:

Some historians think that a similar approach between Jupiter and Venus in 2 BC may have been the source of the star of Bethlehem story found in the Bible. The stellar pair would have appeared so close together that they might have seemed to blend into one brilliant beacon of light.

1. Why is science trying to give a “natural” explanation for something they consider myth?
2. How did the wise men follow an event that lasted only moments?  By a couple of hours later my planetarium program shows that they were totally out of the sky over the horizon.  Not much following going on there.
3. Does the Star of Bethlehem need explanation?  There was a bright thing, they followed it, they got there.  Period.  Why do people feel the need to explain miracles?  “Well maybe the mud had a healing component that cured the guy’s blindness.”  Have you ever seen that happen?  Where is this mud - I’m sure lots of blind people would love to use it!

Silly rabbit, miracles are for believers and those who may believe, not scientists trying to take the credit away from God - otherwise they wouldn’t be called miracles.