"I’ve had many people tell me that God gave us “two books”—the Bible and nature—and that both are equally valid for discovering truth.
Q: Is nature really the 67th book of the Bible?
---This claim is made to accommodate evolution and millions of years. Those who say nature is the 67th book are not talking about
general revelation in the sense of Romans 1—that God’s existence and power are obvious to everyone through what he has made. Rather, they’re claiming man’s interpretation (i.e., evolution and millions of years) of the evidence is “the book of nature”—even though such ideas contradict God’s written Word!
---Nature is cursed. We aren’t looking at the world as God made it. According to Biblical history, we’re looking at a creation that was once “very good” but is now cursed with death and suffering (because of sin) and was judged by a global flood. We can’t look at this creation and figure out what happened in the past without the eyewitness revelation of the Creator (given in Genesis 1–11).
No, nature isn’t the 67th book of the Bible. Rather than accepting man’s ideas about the past and forcing them into Scripture, we must always start with Scripture first and allow God’s Word to be our authority."
AIG
