BIBLICAL REVELATION PRECEDED SCIENCE

There are many ways that Biblical revelation had anticipated scientific findings. For example, the Bible had claimed the God had created the cosmos. However, up to several decades ago, scientists had believed in the “Steady State” theory – the cosmos always existed.

Bruce Malone, founder of searchforthetruth.net, adds another example. He claims that the ancients had thought that it was only the man who provided the “seeds of life,” and that the woman was just the incubator. However, the Bible knew otherwise:

·       and I [God] will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15 (ASV)

Malone adds:

·       This wasn’t believed in Moses’ day when it was told to Moses by God.  Ancient writers believed only the male had the seed of life and that the female was just the incubator of the baby.  One ancient Greek writer, Democritus, even suggested that male semen placed in warm mud would result in a human life in the same way sperm deposited within a female can result in a baby. 

If you are interested in this subject, here are several verses that give examples of how the Bible had anticipated scientific findings:

1.    TIME IS NOT ETERNAL: 2 Tim. 1:9 who has saved us and called us to a holy life--not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

2. ENTROPY (DE-EVOLUTION) Hebrews 1:10-12 And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.” (also, Isaiah 51:6; Psalm 102:25-26)

3. FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS (Matter/Energy neither created nor destroyed): Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

4. THE UNIVERSE HAD A BEGINNING: Genesis 1:1  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Contra the steady-state theory that had ruled science).

5. THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE PHYSICAL WORD AREN’T VISIBLE: Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

6. GENETICS SHOW THAT WE ALL CAME FROM A SINGLE SET OF PARENTS: Acts 17:26 (ESV)  “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,”

7. OCEAN THERMAL VENTS: Job 38:16  “Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

8. WATER CYCLE: Job 36:27 "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams.” (Also, Amos 9:6; Eccl 1:7)

9. DINOSAURS?? Psalm 74:14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave him as food to the creatures of the desert.

10. STARS AS GUIDES TO SEASONS AND GEOGRAPHIC POSITIONS: Genesis 1:14 lights in the expanse of the sky… [would] serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years.”

11. GOD WORKS THROUGH FIXED LAWS: Jeremiah 33:25 states that God accomplishes His purposes through “fixed laws of heaven and earth.”  (Although science demonstrated that phenomena operated according to laws, the Bible long before posited the operation of the God’s laws.) (Also, Job 38:33)

12. COUNTLESS STARS:  Jeremiah 33:22 states, “I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars of the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore. " (Also Job 11:7-8; 22:12)

13. ROUND EARTH, EXPANDING UNIVERSE: “He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in” (Isaiah 40:22; 42:5).

14. THE EARTH DOES NOT SIT ON A PEDESTAL AS ANE COSMOLOGY HAS IT: Job 26:7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

15. HOMO SAPIENS ORIGINATED FROM A SINGLE, COMMON ANCESTOR (Biologos Foundation): Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

16. STRESS NEGATIVELY IMPACTS HEALTH: Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

17.  NECESSITY FOR QUARANTENE: Leviticus 13:46 “He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.”

18. UNHEALTHY QUALITY OF EXCREMENT: Deut. 23:12-13 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

19. FOSSIL FINDS IN THE MOUNTAINS: Psalm 104:6 …the waters stood above the mountains. (Even Everest – supports Biblical account of the worldwide flood)