Eric Metaxas and Hugh Ross: An Astrophysicist Explores the Science of the Bible
Socrates in the City
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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How does the book of Genesis line up with modern science? In this Socrates in the City conversation, Eric Metaxas is joined by astrophysicist Hugh Ross as they explore the surprising truths found in the Bible. The two explore the multitude of ways Genesis gets the science right, but still challenges us, from the origins of the universe to the reality of the Ice Age, along with a personal story about Ross’s Gideon Bible that’s been carried for years. This conversation explores the nuances, mysteries, and surprising truths of the relationship between science and faith.
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| 0:00.0 | And when it says in Genesis, for six days God creates, the seventh day he stops. |
| 0:06.9 | He's basically focusing on his work of redemption on the seventh day. |
| 0:10.6 | And suddenly it made sense to me. |
| 0:12.8 | You know, a lot of astrophysicists believe in God. |
| 0:16.2 | Not too many field biologists believe in God. |
| 0:19.1 | Here's a difference. |
| 0:20.4 | The astrophysicists are looking back |
| 0:22.6 | before the human era because it takes slight time to reach them from those distant galaxies. |
| 0:28.7 | So they're seeing the creation during the six days. The field biologists, they're doing their |
| 0:34.2 | research on the seventh day. So they say, we see no evidence for God's supernatural handiwork and creation. |
| 0:40.3 | Obviously, they're looking on the wrong day. |
| 0:43.3 | I was reading your book recently, and I realized there will never be enough time. |
| 0:49.3 | I want to ask you so much, because we were together in New York recently, |
| 0:53.3 | and I just thought thought we need many, |
| 0:56.7 | many hours. So we'll do our best. But thank you for joining. And thank you for being in the |
| 1:01.7 | film. You're welcome. You were, you're better than the other guys in the film. I just want you to |
| 1:06.4 | know. Way better. John Lennox, nah, he's not that good. He's no big deal. No, it was, but I mean in all seriousness, the problem with a lot of this, and I'll start |
| 1:16.6 | here, communicating these things can be difficult, communicating them on a popular level, |
| 1:24.6 | because you want people to understand, but you're talking about difficult things. I mean, |
| 1:27.7 | most people don't remember what is red shift and blue shift and what does that mean. So I just |
| 1:33.6 | want to thank you for spending decades helping us, people like me, understand what I think |
| 1:40.7 | many of us didn't even hope we could ever get answers on, you know? |
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