There have been obvious conflicts between the scientific community and the religious community over certain points. Of course, the most notable dispute historically was the embarrassing episode of Galileo and the whole theory of whether the earth or the sun was the center of the solar system. We know that many bishops refused to even look at the evidence of a telescope because they had already baptized another scientific tradition that wasn’t biblical. This was a case, incidentally, in which the scientific community corrected theological interpretation and misinterpretation of Scripture because Scripture doesn’t teach that the earth is the center of the solar system, and it took the scientific community to correct us at that point.
We must remember also that a vast majority of the scientific community disagreed with Galileo as well and that the church has corrected the scientific comunity as well.RC Sproul
IS THE UNIVERSE CREATED? SELF EXISTANT OR SELF CREATED? Or a figment of an imagination. How do we refute the theories that are not biblical?
DEPENDING ON THE VIEW WE TAKE - WHAT EPISTOMOLOGICAL (THE BRANCH OF PHILOSOPHY THAT DEALS WITH KNOWLADGE AND HOW WE ATTAIN IT) PRINCIPALS ARE BROKEN, with the other options. You don't have to go into this last part unless you want to.