The Bible, though not a scientific text, precisely because it is God’s revealed Word, has truth to tell us about the same kind of objective reality that science discusses, in particular about the nature and origin of the cosmos and of human beings. We therefore must try to understand that truth. But it has more than that to say at another level, for instance, truth about the meaning of the universe, which science does not and cannot provide. As Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said: “The meaning of the system lies outside the system.”
