Scientific Facts and The Bible, Part 2

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The Bible states that God created the lights in the heavens for signs, seasons, days and years. (Genesis 1:14). Modern astronomy now understands that:

A year is the time required for the earth to travel once around the sun.

The seasons are caused by the changing position of the earth in relation to the sun.

A month is the time of one revolution of the moon around the earth with respect to the sun. Encyclopaedia Britannica

But God told Moses this 3500 years ago!

Ecclesiastes 1:7

Modern science now understands that rainfall is part of a process called "Hydrologic Cycle". The Bible already made this clear! (Ecclesiastes 11:3, Amos 9:6, Job 28:26).

Ecclesiastes 1:6

Solomon is describing a cycle of air currents two thousand years before science discovered them.

Psalm 8:8

Paths of the seas? Just poetry? But in the 1850s Matthew Maury discovered the paths of the warm and cold continental currents!

Jonah 2:6

Come on! But scientists have discovered this is true.

Genesis 3:15

The word offspring is "seed." The Bible states that a female possesses a seed for child bearing. This was only discovered a few centuries ago.

Leviticus 17:11

Blood is the source of life. But a hundred and twenty years ago sick people were bled and many died. They should have read the Bible!

Medical science has recently discovered that blood clotting in a newborn baby reaches its peak on the eighth day. The Bible made this clear thousands of years ago, stating that a baby needed to be circumcised on the eighth day. (Genesis 17:12, Luke 2:21).

Leviticus 15:13

With regard to disease the Bible says to wash hands under running water. Millions of lives could have been saved if doctors had heeded this. "All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the Bible." Sir Frederick Herschel, (Astronomer)

Credits: Author: Reverend Andy Kelso
Label: NIV