I have met people, including professing Christians, who think that thebible is an out-dated, illogical book, which goes totally against science and common sense. They believe that science contradicts the bible, and because of this, they have no confidence in it.
Maybe you or someone you know, thinks this way, but what if I told you that there are several precise ways in which science aligns with the bible? Contrary to the belief that science and the bible disagree, the bible contains factswhich bible authors had no way of knowing, at the time the scriptures werewritten, and which no one knew for sure to be true, until modern science camealong. Stay with me for a few minutes, let me point out just a few.
In Job 38:16, the bible talksabout ‘Springs of the Sea’. Scientists use this term to describe hot springswhich lie at the bottom of the sea. This phenomenon was first discovered in1977 off the coast of Ecuador. Now my question is, how would the bible writershave known about springs, deep at the bottom of the ocean floor, centuriesbefore they were discovered, using sophisticated modern scientific equipment? How could the bible foresee so accurately, what modernscience confirms today?
In Amos 9:6, and Job 36:27-28, the bible describes evaporation,condensation and precipitation; what we know today as the water cycle. Yet, thewater cycle was not fully understood by scientists until the 16thcentury. How could the bible writers, thousands of years before, have understoodthe invisible process of water rising from a lake and going up to the sky,before falling as rain?
What about thestars? The bible in Jeremiah 33:22, tells us that the stars are uncountable. Yetall through history and even until the 17th century, men believedthe stars could be counted, and several prominent astronomers, gave figures ofhow many stars, they thought were in the skies. Today, however, modern science agreeswith the bible, that there are more stars than we can count, and someastronomers even claim that there are no less than a quadrillion stars, that is1 with 23 zeros behind it! Amazing!
Still on the matter of stars, Job chapter 9 verse 9,and chapter 38 verse 31-32, mention and accurately describe some aspects of thenature of several stars and constellations. 1 Cor 15:41, also tells us thatevery star is unique, and all these have been confirmed by astronomers, but howwould the writer of the book of Job have known these details without telescopesand modern equipment?
If you still think all this is mere coincidence,come with me for a minute, let’s look atcircumcision. In Gen 17:12, God commanded His people to circumcise the malechildren on the eighth day. Now listen to this, modern medicine now understandsthat one of the most active agents involved in blood clotting, is notsufficient in an infant’s body until….. you guessed right, until about theeighth day of life! So this apparently simple instruction from God to Abraham,was precise, in order to prevent excessive bleeding during the circumcision of new-borns.Isn’t that just remarkable?
Theseare just a few of several instances where the writers of the bible, a seeminglyprimitive book, turned out to be scientifically accurate.
Now, I am very well aware that there are things inthe bible which do not appear to line up with science, and it could befor one of two reasons. It could either be because of a faultyunderstanding or interpretation of the bible, or it could be because of a faultyunderstanding or interpretation of science, such as I mentioned earlier, wherescientists initially and erroneously believed that starswere countable.
Scientists acknowledge that scientific theories canchange, as new evidence is uncovered, and by this, Iam reminded that science is a tool in God’s hand, a powerful one,but also a limited one. So while I am thrilled by these obvious parallelsbetween scienceand
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