Scientific facts in the Bible

The facts

Earth’s Free Float in Space:
Job 26:7 (written 3,500 years ago): “He
stretches out the north over empty space; He
hangs the earth on nothing.”
The Bible proclaims that the earth freely
floats in space. Some in ancient times
thought that the earth sat on a large
animal. We now know that the earth has a
free float in space.

The earth is round:
Isaiah 40:22 (written 2,800 years ago): “It
is He who sits above the circle of the earth.”
The Bible informs us that the earth is
round. Though it once was commonly
believed the earth was flat, it was the
Scriptures that inspired Christopher
Columbus to sail around the world. He
wrote: “It was the Lord who put it into my
mind…There is no question the inspiration
was from the Holy Spirit because He
comforted me with rays of marvelous
illumination from the Holy
Scriptures…” (from his diary, in reference to
his discovery of “the New World”).

Frst law of thermodynamics:
Genesis 2:1 (after creation): “Thus the
heavens and the earth, and all the host of
them, were finished.”
The Hebrew word used here is the past
definite tense for the verb “finished,”
indicating an action completed in the past,
never again to occur. The creation was
“finished”—once and for all. That is exactly
what the First Law of Thermodynamics
says.
This law (also referred to as the Law of the
Conservation of Energy and/or Mass)
states that neither matter nor energy can
be either created or destroyed. There is no
“creation” ongoing today. It is “finished”
exactly as the Bible states.

Second law of thermodynamics:
Psalm 102:25,26: “Of old You founded the
earth, and the heavens are the work of Your
hands. Even they will perish, but You endure;
and all of them will wear out like a
garment” (NASB).
The Bible tells us three times that the earth
is wearing out like a garment. 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. That means the
universe will eventually “wear out”—
something that wasn’t discovered by
science until fairly recently.

The hydrologic cycle:
Amos 9:6 (written 2,800 years ago):
“He…calls for the waters of the sea, and
pours them out on the face of the earth…”
The Mississippi River dumps over six
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—
something not fully understood until the
17th century, but so well brought out in the
Bible. The Scriptures inform us, “All the
rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not
full; to the place from which the rivers
come, there they return
again” (Ecclesiastes 1:7). Psalm 135:7 tells
us, “He causes the vapors to ascend from
the ends of the earth; He makes lightning
for the rain.” Ecclesiastes 11:3 states that
“if the clouds are full of rain, they empty
themselves upon the earth.”

The science of oceanography:
Psalm 8:8: “…and the fish of the sea that
pass through the paths of the seas.”
The sea is just a huge mass of water; how
could it have “paths”? 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), considered the father
of oceanography, noticed the expression
“paths of the sea” in Psalm 8. Maury took
God at His word and went looking for these
paths, and his vital book on oceanography
is still in print today.

The origin of life:
Genesis 2:7: “And the Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living being.”
While scientists in the 21st century admit
they have “lots of theories, little science”
about the origin of life, the Bible tells us
clearly how life began, based on the word
of the only One who was there at the
beginning.
“The likelihood of the spontaneous
formation of life from inanimate matter is
one to a number with 40,000 noughts after
it…It is big enough to bury Darwin and the
whole theory of evolution. There was no
primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on
any other, and if the beginnings of life were
not random, they must therefore have been
the product of purposeful intelligence.” —
Sir Fred Hoyle, professor of astronomy,
Cambridge University

The Origin of Sexes:
Matthew 19:4: “He who made them at the
beginning ‘made them male and female.’”
Almost all forms of complex life have both
male and female—horses, dogs, humans,
fish, moths, monkeys, elephants, birds, etc.
The male needs the female to reproduce,
and the female needs the male to
reproduce. One cannot carry on life without
the other. But if evolution were true, which
then came first according to the theory?
If a male came into being before a female,
how did the male of each species
reproduce without females? How is it
possible that a male and a female each
spontaneously came into being, yet they
have complex, complementary reproductive
systems? If each sex was able to
reproduce without the other, why (and
how) would they have developed a
reproductive system that requires both
sexes in order for the species to survive?

Countless stars:
Jeremiah 33:22 (written 2,500 years ago):
“As the host of heaven cannot be numbered,
nor the sand of the sea measured…”
The Bible asserts there are countless stars
(described here as the “host of heaven”).
When this statement was recorded, no one
knew how vast the stars were, as fewer
than 1,100 were observable. That’s as
many as Ptolemy was able to catalog in
The Almagest. Now we know that there are
countless billions of stars—an estimated
1025 stars in the observable universe—and
that they cannot be numbered.

Blood is the source of life:
Leviticus 17:11 (written 3,500 years ago):
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood.”
The Scriptures declare that blood is the
source of life. Up until two hundred years
ago, sick people were “bled,” and many
died because of the practice. We now
know that blood is the source of life. It
carries water and nourishment to every cell,
removes the waste material from cells, and
maintains the body’s temperature. This
vital element also carries oxygen from the
lungs throughout the body. If you lose your
blood, you will lose your life.

Blood clotting:
Genesis 17:12: “He who is eight days old
among you shall be circumcised, every male
child in your generations…”
Why was circumcision to be carried out on
the eighth day? Medical science has only
recently discovered that blood clotting in a
newborn reaches its peak on that day.
That’s when the coagulating factors in the
blood are at optimal levels: vitamin K
doesn’t reach sufficient quantity until after
day seven, and day eight is when
prothrombin is the highest, reaching 110
percent of the normal level.

Laws of hygiene:
Leviticus 15:13 (written 3,500 years ago):
“And when he who has a discharge is
cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count
for himself seven days for his cleansing,
wash his clothes, and bathe his body in
running water; then he shall be clean.”
The Bible states that when dealing with
disease, hands should be washed under
running water. Until the 1800s doctors
washed their hands in a basin of still
water, leaving invisible germs and resulting
in countless deaths. We now know to wash
hands under running water. The
Encyclopedia Britannica documents that in
1845, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis in Vienna 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 patients
who died, then 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.

Laws of Quarantine:
Leviticus 13:46 (written 3,500 years ago):
“All the days he has the sore he shall be
unclean. He is un clean, and he shall dwell
alone; his dwelling shall be outside the
camp.”
Long before medical science discovered
the importance of quarantining persons
with infectious diseases, the Bible
instructed it. In 1490 BC the Scriptures tell
what to do if someone has a skin condition
like leprosy. Laws of quarantine were not
instigated by modern man until the
seventeenth century.
“During the devastating Black Death of the
fourteenth century, patients who were sick
or dead were kept in the same rooms as
the rest of the family. People often
wondered why the disease was affecting
so many people at one time. They
attributed these epidemics to ‘bad air’ or
‘evil spirits.’ However, careful attention to
the medical commands of God as revealed
in Leviticus would have saved untold
millions of lives. Arturo Castiglione wrote
about the overwhelming importance of this
biblical medical law: ‘The laws against
leprosy in Leviticus 13 may be regarded as
the first model of sanitary legislation’ (A
History of Medicine).” —Grant R. Jeffery,
The Signature of God

The disappearing dinosaur:
Job 40:15–24 (written 3,500 years ago):
“Look now at the behemoth, which I made
along with you; he eats grass like an ox. See
now, his strength is in his hips, and his
power is in his stomach muscles. He moves
his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs
are tightly knit. His bones are like beams of
bronze, his ribs like bars of iron. He is the
first of the ways of God; only He who made
him can bring near His sword.
“Surely the mountains yield food for him, and
all the beasts of the field play there. He lies
under the lotus trees, in a covert of reeds
and marsh. The lotus trees cover him with
their shade; the willows by the brook
surround him. Indeed the river may rage, yet
he is not disturbed; he is confident, though
the Jordan gushes into his mouth, though he
takes it in his eyes, or one pierces his nose
with a snare.”
Why did the dinosaur disappear? This is
something that has modern science
mystified, but the Bible may have the
answer:
* this was the largest of all the creatures
God made.
*It was plant-eating (herbivorous).
*It had tremendous strength in its hips
and belly.
*Its tail was like a large tree (a cedar).
*Its bones were as strong as bronze and
iron.
*Its habitat was among the trees.
*It could stand unmoved in the midst of a
raging river.
*It was impervious to snares.
Then Scripture says, “Only He who made
him can bring near His sword.” This
massive creature could not be threatened
by man, but only by its Creator. Perhaps
God caused this, the largest of all the
creatures He had made, to become extinct.