Today there are thousands of scientists who embrace the Biblical account of creation (based on forensic proof) and like Newton and many other great men of science, repudiate any form of molecules-to-man evolution in their analysis and use of scientific data.

The Uniformitarian doctrine based on random mistakes has long been replaced by Newtonian Mechanistic Philosophy (a universe which is stable, ordered, structured with intent and mathematically comprehensible) under the apocryphal protest of the liberal scientific community which still currently defines the scientific method to be "a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses and speculations."

Subscribing to the Newtonian Mechanistic Philosophy, scientists have utilized Newton's Universal Law of Gravity to formulate calculations based on the gravitational pull of the earth, that have enabled man to travel to the moon. Literally every discipline of science is being inundated with Creation Scientist, and their numbers are increasing rapidly. Evolutionists are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain the fiction that evolution is "science" and creation science is "religion". When news media personnel and others make such statements today, they merely reveal their own liberal social philosophies not their awareness of scientific facts.

It is obvious to those who earnestly search, that the Bible is the scientific authority in the sense of giving technical descriptions and mathematical formulations of natural phenomena. The physical sciences confirm this. The "Five Equations that Changed the World" are defined as the Universal Law of Gravity - Isaac Newton, the Law of Hydrodynamic Pressure -Daniel Bernoulli, the Law of Electromagnetic Induction - Michael Faraday, the Second Law of Thermodynamics - Rudolf Clausius and the Theory of Special Relativity - Albert Einstein. These laws are ALL supported, confirmed and in some cases, even directly inspired by the Biblical accounts of firmament, solar systems, gravity, stars, planets, etc., which earliest accounts were written six thousand years ago.

Sir Isaac Newton, who was inspired to study the physical sciences after reading the book of Job, noted that the very orderliness and design of the universe spoke of God's awesome majesty and wisdom. The design of the eye required a perfect understanding of optics, and the design of the ear required a knowledge of sounds. The solar system itself could not have been produced by blind chance or fortuitous causes but only by a cause "very well skilled in mechanics and geometry." Gravity itself was an active principle God used to impose order on the world. Seeking to understand God's methods, Newton developed formulas for specific phenomena such as ocean tides, paths of comets, and the succession of the equinoxes.

Newton spent a tremendous amount of time studying the Bible, comparing it to science, and using his discoveries to illustrate the God's methods, especially the prophetic portions of Scripture. His "Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended" writings used astronomical data to argue that the Bible was the oldest document in the world and that the events of Biblical history preceded all other ancient histories.

Regarding history and archaeology the Bible is a historical textbook that passes all test by today's toughest standards including archaeology finds.

More first and third generation scrolls and records have been found dating back to 200 B.C. that confirm the biblical account. Those accounts are further confirmed by secular historians outside of the Bible such as Josephus.

Applying this to the Bible, if we can find numerous copies which are consistent with one another and if some of those copies are very close to the date of the original writings, we have strong evidence of historical integrity. So how does the Bible do? As mentioned above, the Bible is the most well-attested ancient document ever. There is really no comparison at all.

The earliest fragment, a scroll of the account of Daniel from 600 B.C. and another fragment of John 18:31-33 discovered in 1920, dates about AD 120, less than 50 years from the original. There are about 50 other fragments dating within 150-200 years from the time of original composition. Nine fragments of the New Testament were
found in 1972 in a cave by the Dead Sea. Among these fragments, part of Mark was dated to around 50 A.D., Luke 57 A.D., and Acts from 66 A.D. TWO major manuscripts, Codex Vaticanus (AD 325) and Codex Sinaiticus (AD 350) date within 250 years from the time of composition. Compared to other ancient works, this is a very short time span. For example, Caesar's The Gallic Wars dates 1,000 years after it was written with only a mere 10 copies to substantiate it's existence and the first complete copy of Homer's Odyssey is 2200 years removed from the time it was originally written. Yet few people question the historical reliability of these documents. F.F. Bruce observed that "if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt."

The 27 books of the New Testament alone are attested by nearly 5,000 Greek manuscripts and over 24,000 copies! By comparison, Homer's Iliad is the second best-attested ancient document, with 643 copies. But the closest copy to the original is about 500 years old!

The Bible is unmatched in its manuscript evidence and is consistent and unambiguous in its internal claims of reliability and authority. But is there evidence outside the Bible which tends to confirm its historical reliability? There is in fact a significant body of external evidence supporting the Bible's veracity. For example, secular historians such as Josephus (37-100 AD), Tacitus (c. 55-117 AD), Lucian (2nd century), Seutonius (c. 120 AD) and Pliny (c. 112 AD) mention Jesus and the apostles, along with other Bible material. Josephus, for example, often mentions figures familiar to New Testament readers. F.F. Bruce summarizes some of this evidence: "Here in the pages of Josephus, we meet many figures who are well known to us from the New Testament; the colorful family of the Herods; the Roman emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius and procurators of Judea; the high priestly families - Annas, Caiaphas, Ananias and the rest; the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and so on" (quoted in Geisler, Christian Apologetics, p.323).

Pliny the Younger (c. AD 112), writing to the emperor about his achievements as governor of Bithynia, gave information about how he had killed multitudes of Christians, 96 men, women and children. He said he attempted to "make them curse Christ, which a genuine Christian cannot be induced to do" (Epistles X.96, cited by Geisler, p.324). In the same letter, he said: "They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day, before it was light, when they sang in alternate verse a hymn to Christ as to a god, and bound themselves to a solemn oath, not to do any wicked deeds and never to deny a truth when they should be called upon to deliver it up." The citations could be multiplied which demonstrate that the teaching of the Bible was not fiction but was being lived out in the day to day lives of Christians in the first and second centuries.