Originally Posted by Evilkittie
One arguement i've brought up numerous times with my christian friends is things not found in the bible which can be proven today. Such as, Dinosaurs. If in fact the bible is always being written- to educate future generations, why did the dinosaurs get left out? What about cavemen? They existed, we've found physical proof that things like this exsisted
Essentially, people accept the bible on faith.
The Jewish interpretation of why the bible (at least the portion that is shared between Judaism and Christianity) doesn't mention things like dinosaurs or the Big Bang is because even though the bible is "the word of G-d" it had to be written down by people and thus put into terms they would understand. I mean 2000 to 4000 years ago humans didn't exactly have an understanding of paleontology or physics.
Another theory which this Jewish physicist guy actually presents a lot of mathematical evidence for is that since G-d is a being external to the universe, the rate at which it was/is expanding called the theory of relativity into play and that would make the period of time in which the original stuff mentioned in the bible happened look like only a week to an external observer.
My observations of Christianity is that it tends to put a lot more into adherence to the actual words in the bible regardless of science, instead of trying to reconcile the two.