The document summarizes several examples from the Bible that coincided with scientific discoveries made thousands of years later. Some of the examples given include references to the spherical earth in Isaiah and Job, the hydrologic cycle in various books, the uncountable number of stars in Jeremiah, valleys and springs in the sea in Samuel and Genesis, air having weight in Job, and jet streams in Ecclesiastes. The document argues this shows the Bible contained truths about the natural world long before they were scientifically established.

1. GOD was
the FIRST
to know!
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2. That numerous
truths about
our world were
written in the
Bible hundreds
or even
thousands of
years before
science
“discovered”
them.

3. Scientists “Discover” Truths That
Were in the Bible All along!
Few people might be aware of this:
There are passages in the Bible that coincide
with scientific principles that weren't
"discovered" by scientists until thousands of
years after the Bible had been written.
:
Here are a few examples:

4. ► It wasn’t until around the time of
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) that
science established that the earth was
spherical and hung in space.
The prophet Isaiah wrote
in about 700 BC that:
“GOD “SITS ABOVE THE
CIRCLE OF THE EARTH”
Isaiah 40:22

5. ► About 3,000 years before Columbus, it
was written in the book of Job that:
God “stretches out the north
over empty space; He hangs
the earth on nothing.”
Job 26:7
► Also, when Jesus spoke of His Second Coming, He
referred to a night scene (men sleeping), a morning scene
(women grinding), and a midday scene (workers in the field)
happening simultaneously (Luke 17:34-36). This, of course,
17:34-36
is an indirect reference to a spherical earth.

6. ► The Bible described the
hydrologic cycle:
In various passages, the Bible describes a hydrologic cycle, the
process by which clouds are formed, rain is produced, and ground
water is replenished. Science made the same discovery in the
1600s, long after the Bible passages were written.
Here are the related Bible verses:
Job 26:8—He binds up the water in His thick clouds, yet the clouds
are not broken under it.
Job 36:27-28—For He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain
from the mist, which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly on
man.
Ecclesiastes 1:7— 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.

7. ► Galileo (1564-1642) was the first to
“discover” that the number of stars is
uncountable – a fact that has been clearly
established by modern scientists, who now
estimate the number of stars in the “billions
and billions”
• Johannes Kepler counted 1005.
• The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe counted 777.
• The Greek astronomer Ptolemy had said there were 1056.
Twenty two centuries before Galileo,
the prophet Jeremiah said:
“The host of heaven cannot be numbered”
Jeremiah 33:22

8. ► The Bible stated the existence of
valleys and springs in the seas:
Not until the past few hundred years did man have the
technology to discover that there are deep valleys and
fresh water springs in the oceans.
But the Bible always knew:
2 Samuel 22:16a - Then the channels of the sea were
seen, the foundations of the world were uncovered. …
Genesis 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life,
in the second month, the seventeenth day of the
month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep
were broken up, and the windows of heaven were
opened.

9. ► In 1643, with the invention of the
barometer, Evangelista Torricelli
discovered a way to measure the
atmospheric air pressure and thereby
proved that air has weight.
In what is believed to be the oldest book in
the Bible, Job is quoted as saying that:
God “establishes
weight for the wind”
Job 28:25

10. ► Jet streams – the strong permanent highaltitude wind currents that have a major bearing
on weather systems – were discovered by
science in the 19th century.
Nearly 3,000 years earlier,
King Solomon wrote:
“The wind goes toward the south,
and turns to the north; the wind
whirls about continually, and
comes again on its circuit.”
Ecclesiastes 1:6

11. Words of the wise…
Sir Isaac Newton, writing in the 16th century on the prophecy
of Daniel 12:4 (written about 2500 years ago), said that if true,
it would be necessary that a new mode of traveling should be
invented, for knowledge would be so increased that man
would be able to travel at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
Daniel 12:4 - But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the
time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
Voltaire, the French philosopher of the same century, true to
the spirit of skepticism, rejoined:
"Now look at the mighty mind of Newton, who discovered
gravitation; when he began to study the book called the Bible,
it seems in order to credit its fabulous nonsense, he believed
that the knowledge of mankind will be so increased that we
shall be able to travel fifty miles an hour! The poor dotard!"
("Dotard" in this sense indicated a fool.)
Today even a skeptic would have to say, "Newton was a wise
philosopher; Voltaire a poor old dotard."

12. The true relationship between
science and the Bible is
perhaps best summed up in
the words of British
astronomer John Herschel
(1792-1871):
“All human discovery seems to be made only
for the purpose of confirming more and more
strongly the truth contained in the Sacred
Scriptures.”
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