Science Facts Discovered in the Bible

[Mongo]

Job 38:31 "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"

The average reader passes this by without so much as a second glance, but what is really being said here?

Until recently, within this century, scientists theorized about stars in various constellations. One things scientists always "knew" was that constellations were merely the way stars from many systems aligned in our skies. This accounts for the drift seen in many constellations, such as the Big Dipper (which is "stretching").

However, with the sudden predominence of new space systems that peer into deep space, including the Hubble and SOHO, new revelations about our universe were soon proclaimed by the same people who said the Bible is merely a collection of folklore.

One of the newsest (within the last 20 years) discoveries was that the Pleiades are actually stars within the SAME system, and not stars that sit within systems that align unusually close. Another was that this same feature was shared by the stars which comprise Orion's belt.

But more significant is that these are the only two that share this feature, in all of the observable universe. They are also the only two observable with this feature with the naked eye, though the fact of this was not know until recently. Until then, the theory was that stars aligned in the sky. Before that, before we could use telescopes, it was that they shared the same space.

And before all of that, God was telling Job of the uniqueness of these two, that man would finally discover for himself 2500 years later because he refuses to listen or believe in God.

Yes friends. The more science tries to refute it, the more the prove the Bible as historical documentation and not folklore.

Next story: The Missing Day and the Atomic Clock

[Mongo]

Please, PLEASE. Do not make a fool out of yourself with the missing day thing. There is no scientific way to confirm or deny this miracle. Don't come on here like some bloke did and talk about someone supposedly running a computer model backwards, etc, until something happened that "must have been a missing day". The model would never have discovered such. The atheists ate the christian poster for lunch by proving that the discovery was a hoax. There is a similar "Missing Day" hoax involving man landing on the moon, etc. NASA has never found any scientific evidence for the missing day.

I am a firm Bible believer, and I believe in the "Missing Day" due to Joshua praying for the lOrd to stop the sun, etc, but there is no proof outside the Bible, unless a Chinese or Mayan astronomer recorded the event, and it is not possible to prove or disprove through experimentation.

Please, whatever you plan on saying, make sure it actually is true. I get tired of Christians making up lies about proofs of this sort of thing and making the rest of us look so bad.

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Well since you're going to begin with so much as calling me a liar, I'm going to withhold my lengthy reply and the tale, which is scientifficaly proven to boot. I will pray for you. You need help. You turn you anger towards another Christian with venomous hatred. Sad.

EDIT - And as far as the Missing Day relates to the Bible, it does so through a narrow thread, but again that was all in what I was going to post. Also about the flood, mars, and other things that popped up in recent years.

Edited October 8, 2005 by Mongo

[apothanein kerdos]

How ironic that when we find such an intellectual (knowledgable) stance in the Bible, someone turns around and tries to prove the missing day theory. The fact is, it's a myth that was created for e-mails, there is no scientific fact behind it.

Anyway, to the original purpose of the thread, why is it we become fascinated over this and say, "See, science helps the bible!" but then neglect to learn science, history, math, and other studies? If we are going to sing their praises when used properly, then why not learn the arts themselves so they can always be used properly?

[boblandis]

It's sad to watch people fight.

[Mongo]

How ironic that when we find such an intellectual (knowledgable) stance in the Bible, someone turns around and tries to prove the missing day theory. The fact is, it's a myth that was created for e-mails, there is no scientific fact behind it.

If you mean the one about the missing day in Joshua, the only thing about that is that no one can get anyone other than one guy from NASA to admit to anything, and even that is that they did roll back the data and the system did indeed lock up, but it seemed to be a techinical issue with overheating. I think the rest of it was wishful thinking, or hoping.

Has nothing to do with what I was saying.