Scientific Accuracies of the Bible

[Chad]

Scientific Accuracies of the Bible

<!-- start main content --> Many people doubt the Bible for various reasons. One of them is that the Bible is not accurate scientifically. But this just isn't so. The Bible is not a book about science, but when it does speak scientifically, it is accurate. In fact, it was far ahead of any other writing of its time. Please consider the following:

1. The Shape of the Earth
   1. "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in," (Isaiah 40:22, NIV).
      1. This may or may not be construed to support the spherical shape of the earth. The horizon is a circle and a circle is flat.
2. The Earth is suspended in nothing
   1. "He spreads out the northern[skies] over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing," (Job. 26:7, NIV).
      1. This is particularly interesting, considering that the cosmology of other cultures at that time did not have the earth suspended in nothing, but rather upon pillars, or people, or animals.
3. The Stars are Innumerable
   1. "He took him outside and said, 'Look up at the heavens and count the stars -- if indeed you can count them.' Then he said to him, 'So shall your offspring be,'" (Gen. 15:5, NIV).
4. The Existence of Valleys in the Seas
   1. "The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of breath from his nostrils," (2 Sam. 22:16, NIV).
5. The Existence of Springs and Fountains in the Seas
   1. "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month -- on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened," (Genesis 7:11, NIV). See also Gen. 8:2; Prov. 8:28.
6. The Existence of Water Paths (Ocean Currents) in the Seas
   1. "O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!...When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,...You made him [man] ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet...the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas," (Psalm 8:1,3,6,8, NIV).
7. The Hydrologic Cycle
   1. "He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight," (Job. 26:8, NIV).
   2. "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind," (Job. 36:27-28, NIV)
   3. "The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again" (Ecclesiastes 1:6-7, NIV).
8. The Concept of Entropy
   1. "In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded," (Psalm 102:22-26, NIV).
9. The Nature of Health, Sanitation, and Sickness
   1. The listing for this section is too large for this page. But the scriptural references are Leviticus 12-14.

article: carm.org

 

[Fellowservant]

Good post brother i agree, Job is an interesting book as is mentioned in this article, right down to even possible dinosaurs

God bless

 

[Fellowservant]

lol i think Job was one of Gods own scientist, only thing different is that God was his mentor

God bless

 

[faithfulservant]

Awesome post. I was thinking of this the other day when reading the scriptures in Genesis, and it reminded me of a chart by a guy from the turn of the 20th century named Larkin.

Anyhow, it's clear that God spoke of two kinds of "light" when He created the Universe and Earth:

Genesis

<sup id="en-KJV-3" class="versenum" value="3">3</sup>And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
<sup id="en-KJV-4" class="versenum" value="4">4</sup>And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
<sup id="en-KJV-5" class="versenum" value="5">5</sup>And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
<sup id="en-KJV-6" class="versenum" value="6">6</sup>And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
<sup id="en-KJV-7" class="versenum" value="7">7</sup>And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
<sup id="en-KJV-8" class="versenum" value="8">8</sup>And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
<sup id="en-KJV-9" class="versenum" value="9">9</sup>And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
<sup id="en-KJV-10" class="versenum" value="10">10</sup>And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
<sup id="en-KJV-11" class="versenum" value="11">11</sup>And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
<sup id="en-KJV-12" class="versenum" value="12">12</sup>And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
<sup id="en-KJV-13" class="versenum" value="13">13</sup>And the evening and the morning were the third day.
<sup id="en-KJV-14" class="versenum" value="14">14</sup>And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
<sup id="en-KJV-15" class="versenum" value="15">15</sup>And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.


Larkin's chart calls the first light "cosmic" light which indicates the stars and galaxies in the Universe. Then, as you can see in the verse 12 God creates the sun, and its "light," so that Earth may have day, night, days, seasons, and years.

I dunno if this is making any sense, really. I'm no expert on scripture, this is just how it looks to me. I'm no expert on the history of science, either, I'm just assuming humans wouldn't be able to construct a concept of the "cosmos" with such limited tools and means 3,000 years ago.

 

[Pilgrim]

This is a great post. Thank you for sharing it. I think that God is a scientist as well as artist as well as everything else, since He is our all in all. I love reading things like this.