IS
THE BIBLE SCIENTIFIC?
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PTOLEMY,
IN 150 AD, DOGMATICALLY ASSERTED THAT
THERE WERE ONLY
1,056
STARS IN THE HEAVENS!
Astronomers
now guess that there might be over 40, 000, 000, 000, 000,
000, 000, 000
(40
sextillion). The Bible says that they are without number (Genesis 15:5; Genesis
22:17) – but God knows how many there are because
he made them. “And
God made two great lights;
the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night: HE
MADE THE STARS also.” (Genesis
1:16)
God
also has names for everyone of them: “He
telleth the number of the stars; he CALLETH THEM ALL BY THEIR
NAMES. (Psalm 147:4).
Now
there are about 500,000 words in the unabridged Websters dictionary.
If God has every star named, then there are enough such names to fill
around 80,000,000,000,000,000
(80 quadrillion)
books that size. No wonder the psalmist says in the next verse “Great
is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.”
(Psa 147:5) Some
of the stars are named in
Scripture: Pleiades (Job 38:31) Orion
(Amos 5:8), Arcturus (Job 38:32), and
Mazzaroth (Job 38:32)
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“Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools...”
(Romans 1:22)
IS SCIENCE
ACCURATE?
In 1861, the French Academy
of Science published a list of 51
“scientific facts” which supposedly contradict the Bible. Today all 51
of these
“facts” have been proven to be unscientific - they are unacceptable to
modern
scientists! Whenever the King James Bible makes a scientific statement,
it has
always been proven to be correct after man has discovered the evidence.
In fact, the Bible makes
science obsolete - there are 5.6 kilometres of
out of date science books containing useless and wrong information on
the
shelves in the library of the Louvre in Paris.
DO OTHER
RELIGIOUS BOOKS HAVE SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE INFORMATION?
Following is
a passage from the Vedas (the Hindu Scriptures of India):
“The
moon is 50,000 leagues higher than the sun (?), and shines by its
own light (?); night is caused by the sun’s setting behind a high
mountain (?)
several thousand feet high, located in the centre of the earth (?),
that this
world, flat (?) and triangular (?) is composed of seven states (?) -
one of
honey, another of sugar, a third of butter, and still another of
wine,(?) and
the whole mass is borne on the heads of countless elephants (?) which
in
shaking produce earthquakes (?).”
We can see that THERE ARE
AT LEAST TEN FALSE STATEMENTS. This
shows the Vedas to be very unscientific, hence disproving Eastern religions and the
modern New Age thinking which is
based on the Vedas. The King James Bible on the other hand
has
no scientific errors in its 66 books.
HOW
COULD THE BIBLE HAVE KNOWLEDGE
NOT YET DISCOVERED BY MAN?
The Bible contains scientific
data not known by man at the time of
writing and in many cases only discovered recently. How could this be?
God authored the Bible and as such,
man has to accept the information contained therein as true and receive
it by
faith.
WHY DON’T
OTHER RELIGIOUS BOOKS HAVE SCIENTIFIC DATA?
Man
has authored these books and
is limited by his knowledge of the universe at the time of writing.
They haven’t come from the Creator of the universe and are counterfeits.
WHAT ARE SOME
OF THE OTHER SCIENTIFIC FACTS OF THE BIBLE NOT KNOWN TO MAN AT THE TIME
OF
WRITING?
1.
Jewish boys
are circumcised on the 8th day. (Genesis
17:10-12). Science now knows
that on the 8th day, Vitamin K
(a clotting substance) is at its peak in the blood stream.
2.
Running water
is more sanitary than still or stagnant water.
(Leviticus
15:13)
3.
The
earth is not flat (Isaiah
40:22)
4.
The
ocean has currents (Psalm 8:8)
5.
The moon
hasn’t any light of its own (Job 25:5)
6.
The earth is
suspended in space (Job 26:7) “experts” used to
believed that
the earth sat on four elephants that stood on a giant turtle that swam
in a
vast ocean.
7.
Clouds balance
in the air (Job 37:16). Scientists now know
that
gravity is pulling them down while warm air pushes the clouds up.
8.
The stars are
high up. (Job 22:12). The nearest star (Alpha
Centauri) is 40,000 billion kilometres away. If you travelled in a car
at 100
km per hour, it would take you 10 million years to get there.
9.
The earth is
round. (Isaiah 40:22)
10.
Sanitation is
important. (Deuteronomy 23:12-13). Until 1800 AD,
human faeces was dumped onto the streets and people died in their
millions.
These deaths could have been avoided if people had obeyed the Bible.
11.
Fountains
under the sea (Job 38:16). Science now knows that
there
are at least 10,000 underwater volcanoes which add 430 million tons of
water to
the oceans each year.
12.
The water
cycle (Ecclesiastes
1:7).
13.
Lepers are to
be quarantined (Leviticus 13:46,57)
14.
Pig diseases
such as pork tapeworm and the trichinosis larvae can kill people.
(Leviticus 11:7-8)
15.
Everyone came
from one woman (Genesis 3:20). Berkeley University
has
analysed DNA from all over the world, showing, that all humans on earth
have
inherited it from one woman.
16.
Treasures in
the snow (Job 38:22). Of all the countless
snowflakes, no two are the same pattern.
17.
The
bloodstream carries life. (Leviticus 17:11).
18.
There
are submarine canyons under the sea (2 Samuel
22:16)
19.
The
star Pleiades is in a star cluster (Job 38:31)
20.
There
is an empty place in the north of the heavens
(Job
26:7)
21.
Entropy
increases (Psalm 102: 25-27; Hebrews
1:11-12). Scientists admit that the disorder of
the universe is increasing and systems are running from a high to a low
state
of energy. They admit that the sun will become cold one day (as all the
stars).
Jesus Christ will return to remake the universe to a perfect state at
the end
of his Millennial Kingdom.
22. Whales
swallow men (Jonah 1:17). A man survived two
days in a
whale in 1891.
23.
Light
travels (Job 38:19)
24.
The
1st Law of Thermodynamics states that no new
matter or energy is being created in the known universe. Genesis 2:2
states that “...on the seventh
day God ended his work which he had made...”
25.
The
winds have weight and therefore pressure (Job 28:25).
26.
The
winds blow in circuits (Ecclesiastes 1:6)
27.
Light
can be separated into the 7 colours of the
spectrum (Job 38:24)
28.
On
the earth at any one point in time is darkness
and light. (Luke 17:31-34,35-36)
29. There
are laws of physics. God
asks Job: “Knowest
thou the ordinances
(laws) of heaven?”(Job 38:33).
Ordinances
are the physical laws that govern the movement of heavenly
bodies, stars, planets, comets, meteors etc. Some examples are:
Kepler’s laws of equal
orbits, solar physics, Newton’s law of universal
gravitation, quantum mechanics,
Newton’s three laws of motion,
radioactive decay, the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics,
sub-atomic particle laws, the
laws governing black holes, quasars & pulsars.
30. Orion
has “bands” that hold it
together (Job 38:31). Science now knows that
Orion
is a star system that is steadily expanding outwards. The
“gravitational
bands” holding the constellation together have indeed been loosed -
just as God
told Job.
31. Hands
and clothes washing (Lev 15:13). Until 1900 AD, many
patients
in hospitals died from infections due to the fact that doctors wouldn’t
wash
their hands or clothing after treating infectious patients. The Bible
required
repeated washings in running water with time allowed for drying and
exposure to
the sun to kill bacteria.
CONCLUSION
The Bible not only confirms
what is scientifically correct, but avoids
all the other nonsense that other religious books have – for example,
the
ancient Egyptians believed that the world was hatched from a giant
cosmic egg
that had wings.
Because
the Bible avoids scientific nonsense and contains science not
known till recently, it must be concluded that the all-knowing Creator
God
authored the Bible. We can place our complete confidence in the Bible’s
truth
and reliability on every other issue of life as well.
“The
fool hath said in his
heart,
There
is no God...” (Psalms 14:1)
Harley Hitchcock
