Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Thus, on the threshold of this treasure-house of wisdom, we are presented with one of the sharp contrasts with which the book abounds. There is no true knowledge apart from the fear of the Lord. All that pretends to the name, and ignores Him is but folly. It is well for “the young man” to bear this in mind when meeting the many pseudo- scientific theories now abroad. Philosophers and savants have cast to the wind the fear of the Lord, and ruled him out of His own creation. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
Hence the abounding absurdities that are readily accepted by the ignorant as science and true philosophy. Science means exact knowledge.
To call by such a name the wild guesses of evolutionist and infidel biologists is but word-prostitution. Hypothesis, however original and erudite, are not science.
There never has been and never will be a conflict between the Bible and science.
The conflict comes in between the Bible and unbelievers’ vain theorizing; as, also, between religious notions unsupported by Scripture and scientific facts. (Commentary by H.A. Ironside)