How do we reconcile the Bible and science? This has been a question that's been on my mind for my entire Christian life.

I am not a scientist. I have not read a lot of the scientific data when it comes to things like old

earth young earth literal six day creation versus some sort of figurative day in

Genesis one and all the stuff that comes with that. But I've been on this kick

recently of just kind of sitting back and listening and learning from those who have dug into this issue.

And I think it's a really, really important issue.

It's something that a lot of non-Christians are wrestling with,

not even wrestling, I think they just simply you know dismiss the

Bible because they believe it just blatantly goes against science but a lot of Christians are

wrestling with this as well and as you probably know and have experienced there's lots of pretty volatile

heated debates within the Christian Church about how to reconcile the Bible and

science if it can even be reconciled. And so I've been doing a lot of

listening and reading in this area as much as I can. I can't devote a lot of time to it. But on

this podcast I have had

temper Longman on a few weeks ago and I have on the show today

the one and only Dr. John Walton. If there ever is somebody who

understands the relationship between the Bible and science from a biblical

standpoint, it would be John Walton this guy is a beast and if John's listening

that's a positive that's a positive term here that I'm using of you. John has written dozens of books. Many of them have

been high-powered academic books. He's a professor of Old Testament at Wheaton

College. He is one of the top Evangelical Old Testament Scholars.

I mean I would say he's one of the top Old Testament Scholars full stop, but he is a Bible-believing

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