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Science Confirms The Bible
Science and the Bible
Does the Bible contain science-based facts or knowledge that
was beyond the understanding of those who penned them more than 2,500 years
ago?
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 to be true.
Science confirms Ocean Springs
The book of Genesis informs us how Noah's flood was created.
It states, "on this day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up .
. ." (Genesis 7:11, HBFV throughout).
The word "fountains" in Genesis
7:11 comes from the Hebrew word mayan (Strong's
Concordance #H4599) which means wells, springs or fountains of water.
Do
the oceans have fountains?
It
took until 1977 for science to find ocean springs off Ecuador's coast
(see The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas). These
springs contained 450-degree water.
Biblical
statements about "fountains" in the deep were put down when Moses
wrote the first five books of the Bible between 1445 and 1405 B.C.
This
knowledge had to come from someone or something higher and greater than man -
it HAD to come from God.
The city of Ur does exist!
“31 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)
Skeptics
often stated that if Scripture were true then we should be able to find the
ancient city of Ur.
This
city is where the patriarch Abraham, the father of the faithful, lived.
The
entire account of Abraham's journey can be found in Genesis 12.
The
skeptics had the upper hand in their argument UNTIL Ur was found by science in
1854!
It
was discovered that Ur was, at one time, a prosperous and powerful capital city
and a major hub for trading.
The
city not only existed but also was sophisticated and organized!
Wind Currents
Ecclesiastes was written between 970 and 930 B.C. during the
reign of Solomon.
It
contains a very interesting statement about the wind.
“6 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 - a pattern that was not begun to be understood until the early
part of the 19th century?
Note
that God's word says the wind goes south then turns to the north.
What
has been discovered is that indeed the wind goes 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 consistent winds occur only at high altitudes?
The
statement in Scripture about earth's winds did not make sense to the average
person a few thousand years ago.
The
statement in Ecclesiastes is yet another one in scripture that can be proven by
modern science.
What SHAPE is the earth?
Early man thought earth was flat as a pancake. The Bible,
however, tells us something different.
God
states in Isaiah that he is the one who sits on top of the CIRCLE of the globe.
“22 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 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, 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 gives us a more general statement when it says that when one
researches Hindu, Greek or other writings regarding their worship that one
finds they believe the world was "held
up by a man, elephant, catfish, or some other physical support."
Job
is the OLDEST written scriptural book, dating to around 1660s B.C. Note what it
says regarding the earth, which was totally contrary to the logic and science
at the time.
“7 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 we now understand a bit more, 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.
I Stand
I Stand
