Give an example of the different ways a scientific idea may interpreted by a scientist and a nonscientist.
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Kip Thorne explained why scientists talk in code. If he were to say "time machine", that would attract the attention of dozens of reporters for sensationalist tabloid newspapers who would report that he said things he didn't say. So he doesn't say those words. He says "closed time-like loops" so scientists know what he means but reporters don't notice.
The very first verse of the Bible states: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Observations have led scientists to theorize that the material universe did indeed have a beginning. It has not existed for all time. Astronomer Robert Jastrow, an agnostic in religious matters, wrote: “The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.”
True, many scientists, while believing that the universe had a beginning, do not accept the statement that “God created.” Nevertheless, some now admit that it is difficult to ignore the evidence of some kind of intelligence behind everything. Physics professor Freeman Dyson comments: “The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.”
When the Bible does touch on scientific matters, what it says is completely accurate.
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