Biblical Science Facts Revealed

The forty men that wrote the Bible claimed that an omnipotent and all knowing God gave them the very words they recorded, many of which related information in the realm of scientific knowledge. This lesson will list many of these facts, facts that were recorded long before man was capable of proving them true or false

Many years before any person was aware of the earth’s shape Isaiah wrote about it stating, "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth…" (Isaiah 40:22). Hundreds of years before Galileo perfected the telescope in 1608, Job wrote the following comment, "He stretched out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." (Job 26:7) As our telescopes become more and more powerful, even they, aimed at an azimuth over the North Pole reveal this fact to still be true, no heavenly bodies are found. Job not only didn’t have a telescope; he would not have even known what one was because it hadn’t been invented yet. How did he know this fact without divine intervention? In the very same verse Job related that the earth wasn’t hanging on anything, a simple statement that clearly teaches the law of gravity. Yet Job recorded these words more than three thousand years before Sir Isaac Newton made the discovery.

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas A Edison are both given credit for discovering static electricity and the notion that it could be from in the process of clouds condensing. Yet, years and years before their time, Jeremiah said, "When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain…" (Jeremiah 10:13). In this same scripture the concept of a shared atmosphere for the entire planet is also implied.

David stated, "…and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas." (Psalms 8:8) Many years later, Matthew Fontaine Maury, after hearing this passage read by his son, thought that if the Bible states it, it must therefore be true. To this end, he began to find them, and was published his findings in 1847 in his Winds and Currents Charts.

Prior to the invention of the telescope in 1608, men of science contended that there were a finite number of stars. However, as more and more powerful telescopes were built, scientists ultimately came to the conclusion that the number of stars is infinite. We accept this as scientific fact today, but how did Jeremiah know this more than twenty-six hundred years ago when he recorded, "As the host of heaven cannot be numbered…"? (Jeremiah 33:22)