Scientific Truths of the Bible

BIBLE = Stone Cold Truth.


Scientific Truths of the Bible:


(That oceans currents were discoverd due to scripture!)

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* Jeremiah 33:22 claims that the stars of the heaven are
innumerable. Hippocrates, before the invention of the
telescope charted and numbered 1,022 stars. Kepler later
recounted and revised the number. Today scientists agree
with Jeremiah. There are billions just in our galaxy! It is
interesting that the Bible makes the number of stars roughly
equivalent to the number of grains of sand on the seashore
(Genesis 22:17; Hebrews 11:12). Carl Sagan also compared
these two, leaning towards the number of stars being
greater. Amazingly, the latest estimates of the gross number
of sand grains are comparable to the modern estimated number
of stars in the universe!

* Judges 5:20 mentions "the stars in their courses."
While it was once believed that the stars were fixed, today
we know that they too move in a predictable way.

* Job 38:19 is accurate in the way it characterizes
light. Note that darkness is in a place but light is in a
way. It travels a path.

* Job 38:24 indicates the light of the sun (by heating)
makes the wind.

* In Genesis 1:1 and Hebrews 1:10-12 the Bible is
unequivocal that the universe had a beginning. When the
Bible was written many people believed the universe was
eternal. Starting with the studies of Albert Einstein in the
early 1900’s and continuing still today, science has
confirmed the biblical view that the universe had a
beginning.

* Moreover, the universe is expanding (Job 9:8; Isaiah
42:5; Jeremiah 51:15; Zechariah 12:1). Repeatedly God
declares that He stretches out the heavens. During the early
20th century, most scientists (including Einstein) believed
the universe was static. Others believed it oscillated and
would eventually collapsed due to gravity. Then in 1929,
astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that distant galaxies were
receding from the earth. This discovery revolutionized the
field of astronomy. Einstein admitted his mistake, and today
most astronomers agree with what the Creator told us
millennia ago – the universe is expanding!

* Job 36:27 asks how the rain drops stay small (discrete
even in a strong wind)? One of the reasons is found in Psalm
135:5-7. Because of the electrical charges in the clouds,
the rain drops repel each other as they fall. This is why
electrical static during a rain or snow storm can interrupt
transmissions.

* Ezekiel 5:5, 38:12 claims that Jerusalem is the center
of the earth. ICR commissioned a computer analysis of the
earth’s land-masses and discovered that the geographic
center is in Palestine, near the holy city.

*Psalm 103:12 The Psalmist seeks to describe how far
away God has removed the sins of those who have been
forgiven. Interestingly, one can go west or east forever,
unlike north and south.

* Hebrews 1:11-12 describes the wearing down of the
creation in language that nicely mirrors the second law of
thermodynamics and II Peter 3:12 describes the heavens one
day passing away in a fire that causes the elements to melt
in fervent heat (a pretty accurate description of nuclear
meltdown).

* Ecclesiastes 1:4-7 describes the whirling motion of
the winds and the movement of storm fronts long before the
advent of modern meteorology.

* Job 37:16 also gives significant meteorological
information, including the balancing of the vapors in the
clouds. Job 36:27 adds that the quantity of the rain is
proportional to the amount of vapor aloft.

* Job 26:7 The ancients Greeks believed that the world
was held up by Atlas. Other civilizations held similar
ideas. The Bible made an unusual claim: God did not hang the
world on anything.

* Psalm 8:8 discusses the "paths of the seas." The story
is told that when the man we call "the Father of
Oceanography," Matthew Fontain Maury, read Psalm 8 the
aforementioned phrase stuck in his mind. He later sought to
confirm the idea and eventually wrote The Physical Geography
of the Sea in1855. It was the first textbook on modern
oceanography. The state of Virginia erected a memorial to
him that cites this passage.

* Isaiah 40:22 Some have claimed that the Bible supports
the "flat earth theory." But this passage declares that God
sits upon the "circle of the earth."

* Job 38:13-14 conveys the idea of the earth rotating on
its axis: "the earth...is turned as clay to the seal."

* In Luke 17:34-36 the worldwide event of Christ’s
return is being discussed. The scientifically significant
fact is that these verses allude to the different time zones
around the globe long before the earth’s rotation was
understood by scientists. Note that when Christ comes, some
will be enjoying nighttime sleep while others are grinding
in preparation for the day’s baking (typically morning)
and others are working in the field (typically afternoon).

* One of the directors of Standard Oil Company read in
Exodus 2:3 how Moses was placed in an ark "daubed with slime
and pitch." He sent the company geologist Charles Whitshott
to determine if there was still oil in that region. The
discovery of oil led to Standard having very successful well
operations in Egypt. (Tan, Paul L., Encyclopedia of 7700
Illustrations, p. 191.)

* The practice of medical bleeding as a treatment (often
with leeches) was common until the middle of the 19th
century. Historians believe that George Washington's
bleeding caused his death. (Thayer, William R., George
Washington, 1922, p. 240) Ironically, by his bedside was a
Bible that stated in Leviticus 17:11 "For the life of the
flesh is in the blood."

* Linguists have determined that all the earth's peoples
must have originally shared a common language. That is
precisely what the Bible declares in Genesis 11:1.

* The concept of embodied in the laws of thermodynamics:
the constant of the universe’s mass/energy and the
universal tendency towards decay and disorder are clearly
articulated in Ecclesiastes 3:14 and Romans 8:21-22.

* Jonah wrote that there are mountains on the bottom of
the ocean floor (Jonah 2:5-6). Only in the last century have
we discovered that there are towering mountains and deep
troughs in the sea.

* In Job 38:16 God challenged Job to find the “springs
of the sea.” But the ocean is so deep that almost all the
ocean floor is in total darkness and the water pressure
becomes enormous. It would have been impossible for Job to
have explored the “springs of the sea.” Until recently,
it was thought that oceans were fed only by rivers and rain.
Yet in the 1970s, with the help of deep diving research
submarines that were constructed to withstand the pressure,
oceanographers discovered springs on the ocean floors!

* Much of the Old Testament Levitical law is comprised
of health-related restrictions involving diet, cleansing,
and quarantine. The book "None of These Diseases" and
Keller’s work demonstrate the healthfulness of following
that advice. Human medicine did not realize this until
thousands of years after it was written! For example, the
Bible cautions against consuming fat (Leviticus 7:23). Only
in recent decades has the medical community determined that
fat clogs arteries and contributes to heart disease. In
Leviticus 11 the Scripture commanded Jews to avoid sea
creatures which do not have fins or scales. We now know that
bottom-feeders (those with no scales or fins) tend to
consume waste and are more likely to carry disease. Then the
Bible warns against eating birds of prey. Scientists now
recognize that those birds which eat carrion (putrefying
flesh), often spread disease. The Bible prohibited the
Israelites from eating swine (Deuteronomy 14:8). Not so long
ago, science learned that eating undercooked pork causes an
infection of parasites called trichinosis. When dealing with
diseases, the instruction was that clothes and body should
be washed under running water (Leviticus 15:13). For
centuries people naively washed in standing water. Today we
recognize the need to wash away germs with fresh water.

* The Bible declares that life begins at conception
(Jeremiah 1:5) and God declares that He knew each of us
before we were born (Psalm 139:13-15). In Exodus 21:22-23,
the biblical penalty for killing an unborn child was death.
Today, it is an irrefutable biological fact that the
fertilized egg is truly an entire human being. Nothing will
be added to the first cell except nutrition and oxygen.

* The Bible commanded circumcision of baby Jewish boys
on the eighth day. (See Genesis 17:12; Leviticus 12:3; Luke
1:59). Medical science has discovered that the blood
clotting chemical prothrombin peaks in a newborn on the
eighth day. This is therefore the safest day to circumcise a
baby. How could Moses have known this?

* Wise pest-control procedures are given in Leviticus
25:1-24. Modern farmers are still plagued by multiplying
insects. Yet God gave a sure-fire remedy to control these
pests centuries ago. Moses commanded Israel to set aside one
year in seven when no crops were raised. Insects winter in
the stalks of last year’s harvest, hatch in the spring,
and are perpetuated by laying eggs in the new crop. If the
crop is denied one year in seven, the pests are controlled.
And this promoted soil conservation.

* When Noah was instructed to build the huge barge that
would preserve his family and two of each kind of land
creature, the Lord specified for him the perfect dimensions
for a stable water vessel (Genesis 6:15). Ship builders
today are well aware that the ideal dimension for ship
stability is to have the length about six times that of the
width. Dr. Werner Gitt demonstrated that the ark had the
ideal dimensions to optimize both stability and economy of
material. Yet God gave Noah these ideal dimensions over
4,500 years ago.

Other verses could be cited. Just recently articles have
been published claiming that the human rib is the only bone
that has been shown to grow back. Is it merely a coincidence
that this is the bone God took from Adam? A strong case has
even been made that it is no accident that science has
flourished to unprecedented levels in an era of Christian
philosophy. Great classical scientists sought to seek
God’s thoughts after Him. The Biblical view gives reason
to expect orderliness, laws, and repeatability that are the
foundation for the scientific method.