Many principles of modern science were recorded in the Bible long before scientists discovered them. Some examples are:
Gen 15:5, the stars are innumerable.
Gen 7:11,8:2,
fountains and springs exist under the sea.
Lev 15:13, a flow of water
becomes cleansing. This was not found until the 19th century by
Pasteur in his discovery of bacteria.
Lev 17:11, the critical importance of
blood in the life process. It was not found until the 1900s, by
Lister, that the immune system is in the blood. Prior to this,
doctors bled people to rid them of poisons.
1Sam 2:8, the earth is set upon poles. (North pole, South pole)
Job
26:7, the earth hung upon nothing, the gravitational field.
Psa 8:9, water
paths (ocean currents) exist in the sea.
Psa 102:25-29, the law of
increasing entropy, life and death cycle.
Psa 104:6-8, under water mountains
exist.
Psa 104:25, the vastness of the ocean.
Psa 104:25, creatures in the
ocean are without number.
Prov 6:6-8, the ant harvests its food. This was
not discovered until 1871 by a British naturalist.
Prov 17:22, a
joyful mind makes age flourishing. It was not discovered until
recently that happy people live longer.
Eccl 1:6, the
circulation of the atmosphere.
Eccl 1:7, the hydrologic cycle.
Isa 40:22, the earth is round and is a globe. This was not 'proven' by man
until more than 2000 years after Isaiah wrote it.
Isa
42:5,45:12, the expanding universe, GOD stretched out the heavens.
Isa 55:9,
the infinite size of the universe.
Jer 33:22, the infinite number of stars.
Lk 17:30-34, night and day at the same time on the earth. People thought the
earth to be flat then. It was either all day, or all night for the
whole world. 2Pet 3:7, the law of the conservation of mass and energy.
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