Here are some examples:
IN THE BEGINNING:
GENESIS 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Observations have led scientists to theorize that the material universe did indeed have a beginning. It has not existed for all time. Astronomer Robert Jastrow, an agnostic in religious matters, wrote: “The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite oment in time, in a flash of light and energy.
EARTH:
JOB 26: 7 He is stretching out the north over the empty place,
Hanging the earth upon nothing;
ISAIAH 40:22 There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth, the dwellers in which are as grasshoppers, the One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gauze, who spreads them out like a tent in which to dwell.”
The picture conveyed of a round earth ‘hanging upon nothing’ in “the empty place” reminds us strongly of the photographs taken by astronauts of the sphere of the earth floating in empty space.
ECCLESIASTES 1: 7 All the winter torrents are going forth to the sea, yet the sea itself is not full. To the place where the winter torrents are going forth, there they are returning so as to go forth.
The remarkable process of the WATER CYCLE, which makes life on dry land possible, was well described about 3,000 years ago in simple, straightforward terms in this text of the Bible.
PSALM 104: 5 He has founded the earth upon its established places;
It will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.
6 With a watery deep just like a garment you covered it.
The waters were standing above the very mountains.
8 Mountains proceeded to ascend,
Valley plains proceeded to descend—
To the place that you have founded for them.
Here is what a textbook on geology says: “From Pre-Cambrian times down to the present, the perpetual process of building and destroying mountains has continued. . . . Not only have mountains originated from the bottom of vanished seas, but they have often been submerged long after their formation, and then re-elevated.”
HEALTH AND SANNITATION:
LEVITICUS 13:46: 46 All the days that the plague is in him he will be unclean. He is unclean. He should dwell isolated. Outside the camp is his dwelling place.
If an Israelite had a skin blemish suspected of being leprosy, he was put in isolation. Even infected garments were burned. In those days, this was an effective way of preventing the spread of the infection.
DEUTERONOMY 23: 12 And a private place should be at your service outside the camp, and you must go out there. 13 And a peg should be at your service along with your implements, and it must occur that when you squat outside, you must also dig a hole with it and turn and cover your excrement.
This law no doubt saved Israel from many sicknesses. Even today, severe health problems are caused in some lands by the improper disposal of human wastes. If people in those lands would only follow the law written down thousands of years ago in the Bible, they would be much healthier.
PROVERBS 14:30: “A calm heart is the life of the fleshly organism, but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.” In recent years, medical research has demonstrated that our physical health is indeed affected by our mental attitude. For example, Doctor C. B. Thomas of Johns Hopkins University studied more than a thousand graduates over a period of 16 years, matching their psychological characteristics with their vulnerability to diseases. One thing she noted: The graduates most vulnerable to disease were thosewho were angrier and more anxious under stress.
EMBRYOLOGY:
JOB 10: 9 Remember, please, that out of clay you have made me
And to dust you will make me return.
10 Did you not proceed to pour me out as milk itself
And like cheese to curdle me?
11 With skin and flesh you proceeded to clothe me
And with bones and sinews to weave me together
PSALM 139: 13 For you yourself produced my kidneys;
You kept me screened off in the belly of my mother.
14 I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful,
As my soul is very well aware.
15 My bones were not hidden from you
When I was made in secret,
When I was woven in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw even the embryo of me,
And in your book all its parts were down in writing,
As regards the days when they were formed
And there was not et one among them.
At one time you were a single fertilized cell in your mother’s womb. That cell divided to become two cells, then four, and so on. Later, some of those cells became muscle tissue. Others formed your eyes, bones and heart. How was it that the cells formed each of your body parts at the right time and location? Why, for example, did cells develop into ears where they belonged, and not on your knee or your arm.
Look even more closely. In every cell you have tens of thousands of genes and the vital DNA, which tells the cell how to function and reproduce. It is said that the DNA in each cell contains enough information to fill an encyclopedia of 1,000 volumes. It determined the color of your hair, how fast you grew, the width of your smile and countless other details about you. All of that was ‘written down’ in the DNA of one cell in your mother’s womb.
Those are just few examples found in the Bible, but many more scientific facts are described accurately in its pages.In essential features the Bible is in harmony with modern science. Where there is a conflict between the two, the scientists’ evidence is questionable. Where they agree, the Bible is often so accurate that we have to believe it got its information from a superhuman intelligence. Indeed, the Bible’s agreement with proved science provides further evidence that it is God’s word, not man’s.
