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Science Proves The Bible
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How
does science prove the Bible?
BibleStudy.org
What science facts
does the Bible contain that prove its validity?
What knowledge is revealed
that shows it was inspired by God years before the scientific community
discovered them?
This article explores
Bible verses that, in the language of their day, made statements which science
later verified as being accurate.
These statements
clearly show that its writers were divinely inspired to record information
about the world that man would only, much later, "discover" and prove
through science to be true.
Our first science
fact in the Bible is in Genesis.
It
states that Noah's flood was created by the following, "on this day all
the fountains of the great deep were broken up . . ." (Genesis 7:11, HBFV
throughout).
The word "fountains"
comes from the Hebrew word mayan (Strong's Concordance #H4599) which means wells,
springs or fountains of water.
It took until 1977
for science to find ocean springs off Ecuador's coast that proved that such
large bodies of water do indeed contains fountains spewing liquids (see The Medusa and
the Snail by Lewis Thomas).
These fountains or
springs found in the ocean, spouting out 450-degree water, were found by
science more than 3,300 years after Moses testified of their existence.
This knowledge had to
come from someone higher and greater than any man. It had to come from and be
inspired by God!
The city of Ur
“And
Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai
his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur
of the Chaldees . . .” (Genesis
11:31).
In the past, science
based skeptics often stated that if the Bible were true then we should be able
to find the ancient city of Ur where Abraham lived.
The skeptics had the
temporary upper hand in their argument until Ur was found in 1854 A.D.!
It was discovered
that the city, at one time, was a prosperous and powerful capital city and a
major hub for trading.
Ur not only existed,
in spite of the naysaying science community, it was sophisticated and
organized!
Wind Currents
The book of
Ecclesiastes was written between 970 and 930 B.C. during the reign of Solomon.
It contains an often
overlooked but science based statement about the wind.
“The
wind goes toward the south, and it turns around to the north; it whirls around
continually; and the wind returns on its circuits” (Ecclesiastes 1:6).
How could anyone,
thousands of year ago, have known about the pattern of the earth's winds?
This pattern was not
begun to be understood by science until the early part of the 19th century.
Note that
Ecclesiastes 1:6 states the wind goes south then turns to the north.
Man has discovered
that the earth's winds do indeed go clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, and
then turns about and goes counter clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere!
Solomon said the wind
whirls about continually.
How could an observer
on the ground possibly know that winds can move constantly since such
consistency occurs only at high altitudes?
This statement about
the earth's winds would not make any sense to those living in Solomon's day.
His inspired fact is
yet another one in the Bible that was ultimately proven true by modern science.
Shape of the earth
Early man thought
earth was flat as a pancake.
The Bible, however,
tells us something different. God, who made all the science facts we take for
granted possible, states in Isaiah that he is the one who sits on top of the
circle of the earth!
“It
is He Who sits above the circle of the earth, and its people are like
grasshoppers”
(Isaiah
40:22).
The book of Isaiah was
written between 757 and 696 B.C.
Yet the understanding
that the earth actually was round did not become a generally accepted fact of
science until the Renaissance!
Isaiah's writing
about a circular earth, more than twenty-five hundred years ago, was correct!
What holds up the
earth?
What did humans
living many years ago believe held up the earth?
The
book "World Mythology" by Donna Rosenberg (1994 edition) states many believed
it "rested on the back of a turtle."
The
book "Myths & Legends" by Neil Philip states that Hindus, Greeks
and others believed the world was "held up by a man, elephant, catfish,
or some other physical support."
Job is the oldest
written Biblical book, dating to around 1660s B.C.
Note what it says
regarding how God "hung" the earth when he created it, a fact
which any science in his day could by no means prove!
“He
stretches out the north over the empty space, and He hung the earth on nothing” (Job 26:7).
When we look at earth
against the backdrop of the rest of the universe, does it not look like it is
just hanging in space, hanging from nothing?
Gravity, which
science is only now coming to understand, is the invisible force that holds the
earth "up" in outer space.
Scoffers throughout
history have maligned the accuracy of the Bible and considered it nothing more
than a collection of fables and fairy tales.
Over time, however,
true science has consistently proven it statements to be correct and accurate.
God's word has, and
will continue to be, completely reliable on every subject it addresses.
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