Here are some Christian-biblical instances of the rule of science:
(I) God promises explicitly over-abundant blessing in return for collectively bringing "all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in [God's] house", adding the commandment to "test" God in this (Malachi 3:10). [1]
(II) The prophet Jeremiah concludes a long, evidence-based reasoning in his letter to the Israelites captive in Babylon, where worship of idols was common: "Therefore, [in] no way is [it] manifest that [they] are gods: therefore, do not fear them" (Letter of Jeremiah 65 / Baruch 6:68).
(III) Paul describes that there is a huge range of evidence of God's wrath on "every impiety and injustice of people who suppress the truth in injustice" (Romans 1:18). The types of evidence of God's wrath are described in Romans 1:21-31.
(IV) The Lord Jesus states that "If someone loves Me, My Word he will keep, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and an abode beside him We will make" (John 14:23).
(V) According to one reading of the text of Mark 16:17, Christ Jesus promises that a range of types of signs will follow those who are faithful to the commandment to go out into the entire world and preach the Gospel in all creation.[2] Those types of signs, which are all miraculous, are described in Mark 16:17b-18.
(VI) Paul describes the evidence of the pre-Christian existence ("the works of the flesh"), and the evidence of the divine spirit, the Holy Spirit, dwelling in Christians ("the fruit of the Spirit"), in Galatians 5:19-23.
(VII) Christ Jesus describes, according to John 13:34-35, one foremost type of evidence that will identify who are disciples (i.e. devoted students) of Jesus: if they love one another as Christ loves (i.e. self-sacrificingly).
Notes(VI) Paul describes the evidence of the pre-Christian existence ("the works of the flesh"), and the evidence of the divine spirit, the Holy Spirit, dwelling in Christians ("the fruit of the Spirit"), in Galatians 5:19-23.
(VII) Christ Jesus describes, according to John 13:34-35, one foremost type of evidence that will identify who are disciples (i.e. devoted students) of Jesus: if they love one another as Christ loves (i.e. self-sacrificingly).
[1] If more people followed this commandment, there could hardly be any material need among God's people, just as it was with the Church in the first years (Acts 4:34).
[2] There is a lot of evidence that this verse has been mistranslated and then misapplied: foremost, the incidents of people using the act of handling poisonous snakes as a test of being a believing Christian. Further analysis is provided here.
