Why do people try to make scripture talk science?

Scripture makes many specific statements about reality and human nature that are also addressed via science. The overlap is inevitable.

When the Bible said there was a beginning, this conflicted with a prevailing view that the universe was eternally pre-existent. The Bible ended up being correct.

Since Biologos is almost entirely focused on origins, the conversations here always seem to revolve around that. But if you consider psychology and sociology to also be “science”, they overlap and speak to the same issues that are spoken of in Scripture. Crudely put, one could say at that point Scripture is “talking science”, though it might be more properly understood as the overlap of special revelation and general revelation.

In the areas in which I am more interested, Scripture anticipated much of what present-day science has affirmed. Much of the nonsense psychology that prevailed in the 20th century (and contradicting the Biblical understanding of personality) has been debunked, while the Biblical portrayal of the human psyche has been vindicated. (See my book, “Superbia: The Perils of Pride. The Power of Humility.”).

Likewise, the Biblical paradigm for human sexuality has equally been vindicated (The Top Ten Myths of the Sexual Revolution).

Yes, people go too far with finding science in scripture, such as young-earth creationism. But when science and scripture speak to the same issues with precise terminology, what else are you going to call it?