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John Butler 2nd famously said science can purify religion from error and superstition,

and religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolves.

It's in virtually every talk that I give, I reference this quote. It's

virtually, it's something that I have a dream about even. But it's also not the first thing

I really impressed me that John Paul II said about faith in science when I began researching

the relationship between faith and science back in 2005. It was this one from John Paul

the second. That's the long version, but I'll give you the short version. It's actually kind of

boldface there. He said, when the Bible speaks to us about the origin and the universe of the

universe in its makeup, it does not provide us with a scientific

treatise. The Bible does not teach us how heaven and earth were made, but how one goes to heaven.

What does the Bible speak to us about the origin of the universe in its makeup? Well, obviously,

in the creation accounts that we find at the beginning of the very

first book of Genesis, right? The first creation account, which is often referred to as the

six or seven-day creation account, depending on whether or not you count the day of rest,

right? At which God makes man and woman at the same time at the very pinnacle of the sixth day

of making, the final day of making.

And then Genesis chapter two, creation account where God makes the male human first,

and then he makes all the animals, and then he makes the female from a rib of the man.

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