Greyshades
07-08-2008, 04:31 AM
Let's set this record straight. The Scriptures speak for themselves.
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"the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas." ~Psalm 8:8
The Bible says, "...and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas". What does the Bible mean by, "the paths of the seas"? Man discovered the existence of ocean currents in the 1850s, but the Bible declared the science of oceanography 2,800 years ago. Matthew Maury (1806-1873) is considered the father of oceanography. He noticed the expression "paths of the sea" in Psalm 8:8. "If God said there are paths in the sea," Maury said, "I am going to find them." Maury took God at His Word and went looking for these paths. We are indebted to his discovery of the warm and cold continental currents. His book on oceanography remains a basic text on the subject and is still used in universities. Maury used the Bible as a guide to scientific discovery.
In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun, which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat. ~Psalm 19:4-6
In speaking of the sun, the psalmist says that "it rises at one end of the heavens and makes it's circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from it's heat." For many years critics scoffed at these verses, claiming that they taught the old false doctrine of geocentricity (i.e., the sun revolves around the earth). Scientists thought the sun was stationary. Then it was discovered in recent years that the sun is in fact moving through space at approximately 600,000 miles per hour. It is traveling through the heavens and has a "circuit" just as the Bible says. It's circuit is so large that it would take approximately 200 million years to complete one orbit.
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth. ~Psalm33:6 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. ~Genesis 2:1
In Genesis, the Scripture says "the heavens and the earth were completed..." (Gen. 2:1). The original Hebrew uses the past definite tense for the verb "completed", indicating an action finished in the past, never again to occur. The creation was "completed"--once and for all. That is exactly what the First Law of Thermodynamics says. This law (often referred to as the Law of Conservation of Energy and/or Mass) states that neither matted nor energy can be either created or destroyed. It was because of this law that Sir Fred Hoyle's "Steady-State" (or "Continuous Creation") Theory was discarded. Hoyle stated that at points in the universe called "irtrons", matter (or energy) was constantly being created. But, the First Law states just the opposite. Indeed, there is no "creation" ongoing today. It is "completed" just as the bible states.
In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. ~Psalm 95:4-5 To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. ~Jonah 2:6
Only in recent years has man discovered that there are mountains on the ocean floor. This was revealed in the Bible thousands of years ago. While deep in the ocean, Jonah cried, "To the roots of the mountains I sank down..." The reason the Bible and true science harmonize is that they have the same author.
In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. ~Psalm 102:25-26
Three different places in the Bible (Isaiah 51:6; Psalm 102:25-26; Hebrews 1:11) indicate that the earth is wearing out. This is what the Second Law of Thermodynamics (the Law of Increasing Entropy) states: that in all physical processes, every ordered system over time tends to become more disordered. Everything is running down and wearing out as energy is becoming less and less available for use. This means that the universe will eventually "wear out" to the extent that (theoretically speaking) there will be a "heat death" and therefore no more energy available for use. This wasn't discovered by man until fairly recently, but the Bible states it in clear, succinct terms.
He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent ~Psalm 104:2
It is interesting to note that scientists are beginning to understand that the universe is expanding or stretching out. At least seven times in Scripture we are told that God stretches the heavens like a curtain (Isa. 40:22)
The moon marks off the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down. ~Psalm 104:19
God created the "lights" in the heavens "for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years" (Gen. 1:14). Through the marvels of astronomy we now understand 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--"astronomers can tell exactly from the earth's motion around the sun when one season ends and the next one begins" (Worldbook Multimedia Encyclopedia). We also now understand that a "month the time of one revolution of the moon around the earth with respect to the sun" ([I]Encyclopedia Brittanica). How could Moses have known 3,500 years ago that the "lights" of the sun and moon were the actual determining factors of the year's length, unless his words were inspired by God?
He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. ~Psalm 135:7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. ~Ecclesiastes 1:7
The Mississippi River dumps approximately 6 million gallons of water per second into the Gulf of Mexico. Where does all that water go? That's just one of thousands of rivers.
The answer lies in the hydrologic cycle, so well brought out in the Bible. Ecclesiastes 11:3 states that "if the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth." Amos 9:6 tells us, "He...calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth." The idea of a complete water cycle was not fully understood until the seventeenth century. However, more than 2,000 years prior to the discoveries of Pierre Perrault, Edme Mariotte, Edmund Hailey, and others, the Scripture clearly spoke of a water cycle.
"Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, ...The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; ~Job 38:12,14
For ages, scientists believed in a geocentric view of the universe. The differences between night and day were believed to be caused by the sun revolving around the earth. Today, we know that the earth's rotation on it's axis is responsible for the sun's rising and setting. But 4,000 or more years ago, God spoke to Job about it. The picture of a clay vessel being turned or rotated on the potter's wheel--an accurate analogy of the earth's rotation.
"The study of the Book of Job and it's comparison with the latest scientific discoveries has brought me to the matured conviction that the Bible is an inspired book and was written by the One who made the stars." Charles Burckhalter, Chabot Observatory
For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, ~Genesis 17:12
Babies are circumcised on the eighth day because this is the day that the coagulating factor in the blood, called prothrombin, is the highest. Medical science has discovered that this is when the human body's immune system is at it's peak.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; ~Gen. 3:15
Genesis 3:15 reveals that a female possesses a "seed" for childbearing (between your seed and her Seed; NKJV). This was not the common knowledge until a few centuries ago. It was widely believed that only the male possessed the "seed of life" and that the woman was nothing more than a "glorified incubator".
Other facts:
Only in recent years has science discovered that everything we see is composed of invisible atoms. In Hebrews 11:3, Scripture tells us that the "things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
At a time when it was believed that the earth sat on a large animal or a giant (1500 B.C.), the Bible spoke of the earth's free float in space: "He...hangs the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7).
The prophet Isaiah also tells us that the earth is round: "It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth" (Isa. 40:22). This is not a reference to a flat disk, as some skeptics maintain, but to a sphere. Secular man discovered this 2,400 years later. At a time when science believed the earth was flat, it was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher Columbus to sail around the world.
God told Job in 1500 BC: "Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?" (Job 38:35) The Bible here is making what appears to be a scientifically ludicrous statement--that light can be sent, and then manifest itself in speech. But, radio waves travel at the speed of light. This is why you can have instantaneous wireless communication with someone on the other side of the earth. Science didn't discover this until 1864 when "British scientist James Clerk Maxwell suggested that electricity and light waves were two forms of the same thing" (Modern Century Illustrated Encyclopedia)
Job 38:19 asks, "Where is the way where light dwells?" Modern man has only recently discovered that light (electromagnetic radiation) has a "way", traveling at 186,000 miles per second.
Science has discovered that stars emit radio waves, which are received on earth as a high pitch. God mentioned this in Job 38:7 "When the morning stars sang together..."
Solomon described a "cycle" of air currents two thousand years before scientists "discovered" them. "The wind goes toward the south, and turns about unto the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits" (Ecc. 1:6)
Science expresses the universe in five terms, time, space, matter, power, and motion. Genesis 1:1,2 revealed such truths to the Hebrews in 1450 BC: "In the beginning [time] God created [power] the heaven [space] and the earth [matter]...And the Spirit of God moved [motion] upon the face of the waters." The first thing God tells man is that He controls all aspects of the universe.
The great biological truth concerning the importance of blood in our body's mechanism has been fully comprehended only in recent years. Up until 120 years ago, sick people were "bled", and many died because of the practice. If you lose your blood, you lose your life. Yet Leviticus 17:11, written 3,000 years ago, declared that blood is the source of life: "For the life of the flesh is in the blood."
All things were made by Him (John 1:3), including dinosaurs. Why then did the dinosaur disappear? The answer may be in Job 40:15-24. In this passage, God speaks about a great creature called "behemoth". Some commentators think this was a hippopotamus. However, the hippo's tail isn't like a large tree, but a small twig. Following are characteristics of this large animal: It was the largest of all creatures God made; was plant-eating; had it's strength in it's hips and a tail like a large tree. It had very strong bones, lived among the trees, drank massive amounts of water, and was not disturbed by a raging river. He appears impervious to attack because his nose could pierce through snares, but Scripture says, "He that made him can make His sword to approach unto him". In other words, God caused this, the largest of all the creatures He had made, to become extinct.
Encyclopedia Britannica documents that in 1845, a young doctor in Vienna named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was horrified at the terrible death rate of women who gave birth in hospitals. As many as 30 percent died after giving birth. Semmelweis noted that doctors would examine the bodies of patients who died, then, without washing their hands, go straight to the next ward and examine expectant mothers. This was their normal practice, because the presence of microscopic diseases was unknown. Semmelweis insisted that doctors wash their hands before examinations, and the death rate immediately dropped to 2 percent.
Look at the specific instructions God gave His people for when they encounter disease: "And when he that has an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean" (Lev. 15:13). Until recent years, doctors washed their hands in a bowl of water, leaving invisible germs on their hands. However, the Bible says specifically to wash hands under "running water".
And on, and on...
I agree... the Bible is not a science book. It's the original science book. These quotes are taken from The Evidence Bible.
~~~~~
"the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas." ~Psalm 8:8
The Bible says, "...and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas". What does the Bible mean by, "the paths of the seas"? Man discovered the existence of ocean currents in the 1850s, but the Bible declared the science of oceanography 2,800 years ago. Matthew Maury (1806-1873) is considered the father of oceanography. He noticed the expression "paths of the sea" in Psalm 8:8. "If God said there are paths in the sea," Maury said, "I am going to find them." Maury took God at His Word and went looking for these paths. We are indebted to his discovery of the warm and cold continental currents. His book on oceanography remains a basic text on the subject and is still used in universities. Maury used the Bible as a guide to scientific discovery.
In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun, which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat. ~Psalm 19:4-6
In speaking of the sun, the psalmist says that "it rises at one end of the heavens and makes it's circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from it's heat." For many years critics scoffed at these verses, claiming that they taught the old false doctrine of geocentricity (i.e., the sun revolves around the earth). Scientists thought the sun was stationary. Then it was discovered in recent years that the sun is in fact moving through space at approximately 600,000 miles per hour. It is traveling through the heavens and has a "circuit" just as the Bible says. It's circuit is so large that it would take approximately 200 million years to complete one orbit.
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth. ~Psalm33:6 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. ~Genesis 2:1
In Genesis, the Scripture says "the heavens and the earth were completed..." (Gen. 2:1). The original Hebrew uses the past definite tense for the verb "completed", indicating an action finished in the past, never again to occur. The creation was "completed"--once and for all. That is exactly what the First Law of Thermodynamics says. This law (often referred to as the Law of Conservation of Energy and/or Mass) states that neither matted nor energy can be either created or destroyed. It was because of this law that Sir Fred Hoyle's "Steady-State" (or "Continuous Creation") Theory was discarded. Hoyle stated that at points in the universe called "irtrons", matter (or energy) was constantly being created. But, the First Law states just the opposite. Indeed, there is no "creation" ongoing today. It is "completed" just as the bible states.
In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. ~Psalm 95:4-5 To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. ~Jonah 2:6
Only in recent years has man discovered that there are mountains on the ocean floor. This was revealed in the Bible thousands of years ago. While deep in the ocean, Jonah cried, "To the roots of the mountains I sank down..." The reason the Bible and true science harmonize is that they have the same author.
In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. ~Psalm 102:25-26
Three different places in the Bible (Isaiah 51:6; Psalm 102:25-26; Hebrews 1:11) indicate that the earth is wearing out. This is what the Second Law of Thermodynamics (the Law of Increasing Entropy) states: that in all physical processes, every ordered system over time tends to become more disordered. Everything is running down and wearing out as energy is becoming less and less available for use. This means that the universe will eventually "wear out" to the extent that (theoretically speaking) there will be a "heat death" and therefore no more energy available for use. This wasn't discovered by man until fairly recently, but the Bible states it in clear, succinct terms.
He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent ~Psalm 104:2
It is interesting to note that scientists are beginning to understand that the universe is expanding or stretching out. At least seven times in Scripture we are told that God stretches the heavens like a curtain (Isa. 40:22)
The moon marks off the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down. ~Psalm 104:19
God created the "lights" in the heavens "for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years" (Gen. 1:14). Through the marvels of astronomy we now understand 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--"astronomers can tell exactly from the earth's motion around the sun when one season ends and the next one begins" (Worldbook Multimedia Encyclopedia). We also now understand that a "month the time of one revolution of the moon around the earth with respect to the sun" ([I]Encyclopedia Brittanica). How could Moses have known 3,500 years ago that the "lights" of the sun and moon were the actual determining factors of the year's length, unless his words were inspired by God?
He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. ~Psalm 135:7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. ~Ecclesiastes 1:7
The Mississippi River dumps approximately 6 million gallons of water per second into the Gulf of Mexico. Where does all that water go? That's just one of thousands of rivers.
The answer lies in the hydrologic cycle, so well brought out in the Bible. Ecclesiastes 11:3 states that "if the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth." Amos 9:6 tells us, "He...calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth." The idea of a complete water cycle was not fully understood until the seventeenth century. However, more than 2,000 years prior to the discoveries of Pierre Perrault, Edme Mariotte, Edmund Hailey, and others, the Scripture clearly spoke of a water cycle.
"Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, ...The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; ~Job 38:12,14
For ages, scientists believed in a geocentric view of the universe. The differences between night and day were believed to be caused by the sun revolving around the earth. Today, we know that the earth's rotation on it's axis is responsible for the sun's rising and setting. But 4,000 or more years ago, God spoke to Job about it. The picture of a clay vessel being turned or rotated on the potter's wheel--an accurate analogy of the earth's rotation.
"The study of the Book of Job and it's comparison with the latest scientific discoveries has brought me to the matured conviction that the Bible is an inspired book and was written by the One who made the stars." Charles Burckhalter, Chabot Observatory
For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, ~Genesis 17:12
Babies are circumcised on the eighth day because this is the day that the coagulating factor in the blood, called prothrombin, is the highest. Medical science has discovered that this is when the human body's immune system is at it's peak.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; ~Gen. 3:15
Genesis 3:15 reveals that a female possesses a "seed" for childbearing (between your seed and her Seed; NKJV). This was not the common knowledge until a few centuries ago. It was widely believed that only the male possessed the "seed of life" and that the woman was nothing more than a "glorified incubator".
Other facts:
Only in recent years has science discovered that everything we see is composed of invisible atoms. In Hebrews 11:3, Scripture tells us that the "things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
At a time when it was believed that the earth sat on a large animal or a giant (1500 B.C.), the Bible spoke of the earth's free float in space: "He...hangs the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7).
The prophet Isaiah also tells us that the earth is round: "It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth" (Isa. 40:22). This is not a reference to a flat disk, as some skeptics maintain, but to a sphere. Secular man discovered this 2,400 years later. At a time when science believed the earth was flat, it was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher Columbus to sail around the world.
God told Job in 1500 BC: "Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?" (Job 38:35) The Bible here is making what appears to be a scientifically ludicrous statement--that light can be sent, and then manifest itself in speech. But, radio waves travel at the speed of light. This is why you can have instantaneous wireless communication with someone on the other side of the earth. Science didn't discover this until 1864 when "British scientist James Clerk Maxwell suggested that electricity and light waves were two forms of the same thing" (Modern Century Illustrated Encyclopedia)
Job 38:19 asks, "Where is the way where light dwells?" Modern man has only recently discovered that light (electromagnetic radiation) has a "way", traveling at 186,000 miles per second.
Science has discovered that stars emit radio waves, which are received on earth as a high pitch. God mentioned this in Job 38:7 "When the morning stars sang together..."
Solomon described a "cycle" of air currents two thousand years before scientists "discovered" them. "The wind goes toward the south, and turns about unto the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits" (Ecc. 1:6)
Science expresses the universe in five terms, time, space, matter, power, and motion. Genesis 1:1,2 revealed such truths to the Hebrews in 1450 BC: "In the beginning [time] God created [power] the heaven [space] and the earth [matter]...And the Spirit of God moved [motion] upon the face of the waters." The first thing God tells man is that He controls all aspects of the universe.
The great biological truth concerning the importance of blood in our body's mechanism has been fully comprehended only in recent years. Up until 120 years ago, sick people were "bled", and many died because of the practice. If you lose your blood, you lose your life. Yet Leviticus 17:11, written 3,000 years ago, declared that blood is the source of life: "For the life of the flesh is in the blood."
All things were made by Him (John 1:3), including dinosaurs. Why then did the dinosaur disappear? The answer may be in Job 40:15-24. In this passage, God speaks about a great creature called "behemoth". Some commentators think this was a hippopotamus. However, the hippo's tail isn't like a large tree, but a small twig. Following are characteristics of this large animal: It was the largest of all creatures God made; was plant-eating; had it's strength in it's hips and a tail like a large tree. It had very strong bones, lived among the trees, drank massive amounts of water, and was not disturbed by a raging river. He appears impervious to attack because his nose could pierce through snares, but Scripture says, "He that made him can make His sword to approach unto him". In other words, God caused this, the largest of all the creatures He had made, to become extinct.
Encyclopedia Britannica documents that in 1845, a young doctor in Vienna named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was horrified at the terrible death rate of women who gave birth in hospitals. As many as 30 percent died after giving birth. Semmelweis noted that doctors would examine the bodies of patients who died, then, without washing their hands, go straight to the next ward and examine expectant mothers. This was their normal practice, because the presence of microscopic diseases was unknown. Semmelweis insisted that doctors wash their hands before examinations, and the death rate immediately dropped to 2 percent.
Look at the specific instructions God gave His people for when they encounter disease: "And when he that has an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean" (Lev. 15:13). Until recent years, doctors washed their hands in a bowl of water, leaving invisible germs on their hands. However, the Bible says specifically to wash hands under "running water".
And on, and on...
I agree... the Bible is not a science book. It's the original science book. These quotes are taken from The Evidence Bible.