Science in the Bible

[KiwiChristian]

SCIENCE IN THE BIBLE

 

 

Spherical Earth. 

 

“It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth." Isaiah 40:22. 

"..when he set a compass upon the face of the depth." Proverbs 8:27. 

Circle 2329 = Compass 2329 in Hebrew is "Khoog" = to describe a circle, or circuit, meaning the horizon which is circular. 

 

In 712 BC, when Isaiah wrote this, people thought that the earth was flat, and that you could sail over the edge of it and fall off. Columbus and Magellan proved that the earth was circular by sailing around it in a circle from East to West and then returning to the point of departure. 

 

Question: How did the Bible know that the earth was spherical? 

Answer: God wrote it!

 

 

The Earth Hangs in Space. 

 

"He hangs the earth upon nothing." Job 26:7 stated 1500BC. 

 

Until modern times "experts" believed ideas such as the earth sat on four elephants, who stood on a giant turtle, who swam in the ocean. Man could not imagine how the earth could hang in space on nothing. Yet this is what happens due to gravitational attraction between the earth and the sun, giving the appearance that the earth hangs on nothing. 

 

 

The Bible includes some principles of fluid dynamics.

 

Job 28:25 "To establish a weight for the wind,And apportion the waters by measure."

 

The fact that air has weight was proven scientifically only about 300 years ago. The relative weights of air and water are needed for the efficient functioning of the world’s hydrologic cycle, which in turn sustains life on the earth.

 

 

The bible includes reasonably complete descriptions of the hydrologic cycle.

 

Psalm 135:7 "He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries."

 

Jeremiah 10:13 "When He utters His voice,There is a multitude of waters in the heavens: And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.

He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”

 

In these verses you can see several phases of the hydrologic cycle—the worldwide processes of evaporation, translation aloft by atmospheric circulation, condensation with electrical discharges, and precipitation.

 

 

The Bible describes the recirculation of water.

 

Ecclesiastes 1:7 "All the rivers run into the sea,Yet the sea is not full;To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again."

 

Isaiah 55:10 "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there,But water the earth,And make it bring forth and bud,That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, "

 

Hydrothermal vents are described in two books of the Bible written before 1400BC—more than 3,000 years before their discovery by science.

 

Genesis 7:11 "In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."

 

Job 38:16 "Have you entered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?"

 

 

Cloud Balancing.

 

"Dost thou know the balancing of the clouds?" Job 37:16.

 

Clouds are floating in the air, balanced by two forces: gravity pulling them downwards, and warm air pushing them upwards. How did Job know about this in 1500 BC? God told him. 

 

 

All Mankind came from One Woman.

 

"Adam called his wife's name Eve: because she was the mother of all living." Genesis 3:20. DNA is found in every cell, in both the nucleus and the mitochondrion (energy station). Mitochondrial DNA is always and only inherited from the mother. Analysis of this DNA in humans from all over the world shows unmistakably that all humans have inherited it from one woman. This research was done by Wilson, Cann, and Stoneking from the University of California, Berkeley. (Creation Ex Nihilo, Vol.12, No.2, March 1990). 

 

 

 The Bloodstream Carries Life.

 

"The life of the flesh is in the blood." Leviticus 17:11.

 

From 400 BC to 1900 AD, a procedure called "blood letting" was popular. Sick people had blood drained from their bloodstream as a supposed therapeutic measure. It was responsible for killing millions of people, such as George Washington. People thought that blood carried disease instead of life. By draining the blood, the patient died of blood loss. Now we give blood to some sick patients. The Bible was right again. 

 

 

Winds blow in Circuits.

 

"The wind goes toward the south, and turns about unto the north, it whirls about

continually and the wind turns again according to his circuits." Ecclesiastes 1:6.

At the equator, the sun heats the air causing it to rise. In the upper atmosphere this airflows away from the equator. When the air returns to the earth's surface, it flows across the surface. This moving surface air produces the six belts of prevailing winds around the earth. 

 

 

Winds have Weight and hence Air Pressure.

 

"To make the weight for the winds." Job 28:25.

 

Galileo in 1600 AD noted that a suction pump would not raise water more than 34 feet. Torricelli suggested that if air could support a column of water 34 feet high, then air should support a column of mercury about 2.5 feet high, because mercury is 13 times as heavy as water. Torricelli made a mercury barometer and proved that air has pressure 

 

 

Can a Whale swallow Jonah

 

"Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." Jonah 1:17. Many people use this as their reason for doubting the Bible's truthfulness. How can a fish swallow a man?

Several cases in modern times have been reported of a whale swallowing a man who survived. One is reported by Francis Fox in "Sixty-three years of Engineering" p.298-300 and confirmed by two scientists, one being M. DeParville, the scientific editor of "Journal Des Debats" in Paris.

 

In February 1891, the whaling ship, "Star of the East" was near the Falkland Islands, where they sighted a large sperm whale. Two boats were sent out after the whale. One boat harpooned the whale, but the whale upset the other boat, drowning one man and the other sailor James Bartley, disappearing without a trace. After the whale was killed and cut open two days later, James Bartley was found unconscious and doubled up inside the whale. He had lost his senses through fright and not through lack of air. His skin was bleached white from stomach acid. He fully recovered. If a man can survive two days in a whale in 1891, surely Jonah could have survived three days in a great fish in 862 BC. 

 

 

Sea Paths or Ocean Currents.

 

"Whatsoever passes through the paths of the sea". Psalm 8:8. "Paths" in Hebrew means "customary roads." Matthew Maury is the father of Oceanography. A statue of him exists in Virginia with charts of the sea in one hand and a Bible in the other. Until Maury's work there were no charts of sailing lanes. One day during a temporary illness, his son read from Psalm 8:8. Maury stopped him, asking him to read it again. Maury then said: "It is enough. If the Word of God says that there are paths in the sea, they must be there, and I am going to find them." Within a few years he had charted the sea lanes and ocean currents. Question: How did the Bible know about sea paths or ocean currents? Answer: God wrote it. 

 

 

Light can be Parted or Dispersed into a Rainbow Spectrum.

 

"By what way is the light parted (Heb.2505)?" Job 38:24. "Parted" in Hebrew is "chalaq”

which means, "separated". White light can be separated into 7 colours of the spectrum which are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. This was not understood until experiments with light were performed in the 1600's. Note: Light is like Jesus Christ: "I am the light of the world." John 9:5. As light has seven colours, so Christ has the seven spirits of God. See Isaiah 11:1,2. 

[The Barbarian]

On 6/16/2018 at 8:49 PM, KiwiChristian said:

 Spherical Earth. 

 

“It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth." Isaiah 40:22. 

"..when he set a compass upon the face of the depth." Proverbs 8:27. 

Circle 2329 = Compass 2329 in Hebrew is "Khoog" = to describe a circle, or circuit, meaning the horizon which is circular. 

 

In 712 BC, when Isaiah wrote this, people thought that the earth was flat, and that you could sail over the edge of it and fall off. Columbus and Magellan proved that the earth was circular by sailing around it in a circle from East to West and then returning to the point of departure. 

 

The ancients knew that the Earth was a globe.  They knew this from various evidence such as the Earth casting a circular shadow on the Moon during lunar eclipses, the gradual appearance of coastal mountains as ships approached the coast, and so on.  Before Christ was born, Eratosthenes of Alexandria actually measured the Earth's circumference to a very precise distance.   All educated people in the Mediterranean area knew the Earth was a globe in space.

 

[The Barbarian]

On 6/16/2018 at 8:49 PM, KiwiChristian said:

"Whatsoever passes through the paths of the sea". Psalm 8:8. "Paths" in Hebrew means "customary roads." Matthew Maury is the father of Oceanography. A statue of him exists in Virginia with charts of the sea in one hand and a Bible in the other. Until Maury's work there were no charts of sailing lanes. One day during a temporary illness, his son read from Psalm 8:8. Maury stopped him, asking him to read it again. Maury then said: "It is enough. If the Word of God says that there are paths in the sea, they must be there, and I am going to find them." Within a few years he had charted the sea lanes and ocean currents. Question: How did the Bible know about sea paths or ocean currents? Answer: God wrote it. 

About 2,900 years ago, the Greeks began to venture outside the Mediterranean, past the Straits of Gibraltar at the western end of the Mediterranean Sea. This narrow channel separates Europe from Africa, and the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean. Just outside of the Straits of Gibraltar, early Greek sailors noticed a strong current running from north to south.

https://divediscover.whoi.edu/history-of-oceanography/the-mediterranean-sea/

[The Barbarian]

This doesn't refute God, but it is a caution: be very sure your intended proof of God is valid, or it will become another impediment to people who might otherwise come to Him.

 

 

[Tzephanyahu]

On 6/17/2018 at 2:49 AM, KiwiChristian said:

SCIENCE IN THE BIBLE

Yahweh said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground." ~ Genesis 4:10

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