Numbers 14:32 But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.
The problem with the scientific approach to obeying God is that when finite sciences, and the Scriptures collide as they often do, the persons in question will take a step back, and will often stumble if things do not add up. Thus, we must declare unequivocally, that this is not the type of obedience, or belief system that God is looking for. For instance, there has not been found any material evidence that the children of Israel had wandered forty years in the wilderness, as the Bible clearly states.
There have been no residues, remnants, or vestiges of their pilgrimage found along the way, and for this reason, the scientific approach could stumble over the Biblical account. Here it is again as the scientific approach, waits for lab tests and results, before believing, and obeying. All the while, serious collateral damage is occurring, in the human family as persons await confirmation from science. In the Bible, God does not always give us many fine details of what adverse events would take place, nor does He always say exactly how they would unfold if we were to ignore His revealed will.
Leviticus 11:4 Nevertheless these shall you not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he chews the cud, but divides not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 5 And the coney, because he chews the cud, but divides not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 7 And the swine, though he divides the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he chews not the cud; he is unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:8 Of their flesh shall you not eat, and their carcasses shall you not touch; they are unclean to you. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!