Abstract

Man is God’s only creation who was given reason, will and feeling, having been created in God’s own image. Reason refers to man’s ability to know nature and to rule over it which occurred throughout his millenary existence through the development of science in all its aspects. Science is the fruit of the divine gift offered through genesis – man’s wisdom. The first step taken by man was to develop writing to help him record his actions, his nature-related discoveries or his feelings towards the world around him. Later on man has developed the other sides of science: mathematics, physics, astronomy, philosophy, etc. For the Hebrew people, science was subjected to religion and urged it to apprehend the divine work. The science of the Hebrews in the Old Testament was known to the cultures and civilizations of the old oriental peoples.