Rich Sorensen's Blog

Is the Bible myth and is it compatible with science?

There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:4)

A few of the human images of gods of the ancient world

A speculative image based on the Shroud of Turin

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don’t find it much of a science either.
~ Jean Chretien

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
~ Harriet Martineau

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist
~ Pierre Charles Baudelaire

The grass withers and the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever.
~ Isaiah 40:7-8

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth
~ Gerald Vann

Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, “There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason.”
~ Alister E. McGrath