Answer the 4 questions:
1. In what ways are nature and Scripture alike? In what ways are they different?
2. What do you think of the principle To best understand what the text means for us today, we should first seek to understand how the original author and the intended audience understood the text? Does some Scripture have hidden content or meaning for us today that would have been incomprehensible to the original audience? Might Scripture today ever mean something different from what it meant to the original audience?
3. In Mark 4:31 Jesus claims that the mustard seed is the smallest seed on the earth, but other types of seeds have since been found that are smaller. Is this a conflict between nature and Scripture: If so, how could this conflict be resolved?
4. What similarities do you see between the Galileo incident and modern debates about creations, evolution, and design? What differences?
