Bias in Science and Belief in the Bible

Millions of Christian living around the world have anexample, in the area of evolution a good number
unshaken faith in the Bible.  For them it is theof proof produced to attack the concept of
greatest and the only absolute standard forcreation come in this category.
determining matters related to creed andSome decades ago the famous Piltdown Man
conduct.  But there is no shortage of criticsfossil was used to prove evolution and to refute
against the Bible who would like to tell thesecreation.  In the fifties this fossil was discovered
people that their belief in the Bible  is foolishto be a fake.  Then there is the celebrated
because of on reason or other.  There areNebraska Man who was reconstructed from a
numerous sociological and anthropological reasonssingle tooth, and even presented in a court case
for man's apposition to the Bible, but that is notto prove evolution.  When the rest of the
the topic for consideration in this article.  It will beskeleton was discovered they found it to be a pig
enough to note that  according to the Bible,instead  of a missing link in man's evolution.  The
people will continue to oppose it as long as theycase of the Embryological proof of evolution is
are dominated by their sin natures.much more interesting.  A scientist produced the
The attacks against the Bible have come  frompictures of various embryos to prove that the
the simple as will as the learned, in all generationshuman embryo passes through several stages
of mankind, but the mode has changed from timerepresenting its animal past.  After other
to time.  In this generation, the attacks are donescientists studied similar embryos, they exposed
in the name of science.  They reason that if thethis man's work to be deception.  (It is an irony
Bible contains scientific errors in its statements,that Indian textbook dealing with evolution still
then it is nor a reliable book.  The more theprint these pictures and teach it as a proof of
number of these errors, the less is the reliabilityevolution, eighty years after it was exposed to
of the book as a whole.  We must surely grantbe a big lie)
to the critic that if the narratives in the Bible areEvery generation of scientists will contain some
erroneous about this world, then its statementsmen who are biased and prejudiced in their
about the spiritual world are also suspect.work.  They will deviate from the higher
In the past two hundred years a flood  ofstandards which should govern them.  Some of
anti-Bible  material has been published in the formthem will distort the truth, while others will even
of articles, books and even learned treatises. invent nonexistent data or results to support their
However, with the passage of time many ofclaims.  Two scientific works have exposed
these writings were exposed to be shallow orthese practices recently.  One is a research
biased, so that the information presented in thesepaper published in the reputed scientific journal
books against the Bible are more of fiction andNature and the other is a scientific book by the
less of fact.  One of the reasons that has beentitle of "False Prophets".  Both of these
exposed time and against the existence of Biasdocuments expose the unbelievably high rate of
and Cheating in the world of science.cheating and deception in the scientific
The common notion which people have ofcommunity.  According to them such practices
scientist is that of men who passionately try toare more widespread in the Biological science in
discover the secrets of nature; men who are notcomparison to exact science like physics.
influenced by any type of biases or prejudices,In the remote and also in the recent past many
whether it be religious, political, racial, or any otherof the biased, prejudiced, and wrong conclusions
type which we can think of.  If this view of theof scientists were used to attack the Bible.  This
scientists is correct, then science, the product  ofis not objectivity.  An honest enquirer  living  in
their  research also ought to be fully true,the twentieth century has to accept that the
objective, and unbiased.  However this is not theBible is not in conflict with any firmly established
truth.  Scientists are men affected by all kinds offact of science.  It might come in conflict with
biases and prejudices, and their work does containfalse information that is paraded in the name  of
things which are biased or dishonest.  Many timesscience, but then that is not science in any way. 
these wrong conclusions are picked up by theObjective science has never contradicted the
critics who use them to attack the Bible.  ForBible.