Concordism and the Nature of Science

The problem therefore with the concordism debate is that both options are wrong. The biblical account is not “scientific,” but history; it is eye-witness account of what happened. It does not tell us scientifically what happened, as if science can do that. Science is a tool. It can tell us what possibly might have brought the events stated in the Bible to pass, but it is totally incapable of telling us what exactly happened in history. In other words, science can only tell us the “how,” not the “what” of history. Christians therefore do not have to try to reconcile “science” with the Bible, because the evolutionary metanarrative is not science, but a non-scientific metanarrative propped up with plausible scientific theories and facts that supposedly validate it.

Concordism and the Nature of Science