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== Specific examples of foreknowledge ==

== Specific examples of foreknowledge ==

===Health===

==Health==

====Homosexuality and disease====

====Homosexuality and disease====

The Bible's prohibition against [[homosexuality]] predated knowledge about the [[Homosexuality and Health|many diseases and disorders associated with homosexuality]], and thus showed scientific wisdom prescient for its time.

The Bible's prohibition against [[homosexuality]] predated knowledge about the [[Homosexuality and Health|many diseases and disorders associated with homosexuality]], and thus showed scientific wisdom prescient for its time.

==== Eyesight ====

=== Eyesight ===

The description in the [[Gospel of Mark|Gospel of Mark (Translated)]] for the sensation when one's eyesight is restored includes his perception of "trees walking" was first confirmed nearly 2000 years later as physicians developed medical techniques for restoring eyesight.

The description in the [[Gospel of Mark|Gospel of Mark (Translated)]] for the sensation when one's eyesight is restored includes his perception of "trees walking" was first confirmed nearly 2000 years later as physicians developed medical techniques for restoring eyesight.

==Cosmology==

==Cosmology==

====Spherical Earth====

===Spherical Earth===

The Book of Isaiah establishes that the true shape of the earth is a sphere:

The Book of Isaiah establishes that the true shape of the earth is a sphere:

{{cquote|It is He who sits above the circle of the earth... - Isaiah 40:22 (KJV)}}

{{cquote|It is He who sits above the circle of the earth... - Isaiah 40:22 (KJV)}}

Note that Isaiah was written circa the 8th century BC, centuries before Greek philosophers, beginning with [[Pythagoras]], theorized the earth was round.

Note that Isaiah was written circa the 8th century BC, centuries before Greek philosophers, beginning with [[Pythagoras]], theorized the earth was round.

==== Earth free floating in space ====

=== Earth free floating in space ===

The book of Job states that God "hangs the earth on nothing." This presaged the fact that space is in fact empty, which wasn't known until the dawn of the 20th century, when ether theory was disproved.  It also contrasts with pagan mythologies such as [[Atlas]] holding up the earth or the earth being supported by a giant turtle, as in ancient Hindu and native American myths.

The book of Job states that God "hangs the earth on nothing." This presaged the fact that space is in fact empty, which wasn't known until the dawn of the 20th century, when ether theory was disproved.  It also contrasts with pagan mythologies such as [[Atlas]] holding up the earth or the earth being supported by a giant turtle, as in ancient Hindu and native American myths.

====Beginning of the Universe====

===Beginning of the Universe===

Contrary to many mythical cosmologies, the Bible asserts that the entire cosmos had a beginning, as told in Genesis.  This was considered unscientific for millenia, as scientists believed the universe was in a steady state, until the discovery of the [[redshift]] proved an expanding, and thus time-limited, universe and vindicated the Bible.  Genesis also states that God said "let there be light, and there was light," which is in perfect compliance with our latest scientific understanding of the universe's early moments, in which there was an enormous quantity of energy, especially light.

Contrary to many mythical cosmologies, the Bible asserts that the entire cosmos had a beginning, as told in Genesis.  This was considered unscientific for millenia, as scientists believed the universe was in a steady state, until the discovery of the [[redshift]] proved an expanding, and thus time-limited, universe and vindicated the Bible.  Genesis also states that God said "let there be light, and there was light," which is in perfect compliance with our latest scientific understanding of the universe's early moments, in which there was an enormous quantity of energy, especially light.

=== Zoology: ===

== Zoology: ==

====Existence of dinosaurs====

===Existence of dinosaurs===

[[Dinosaur]] fossils were not discovered until the 19th century, but the book of [[Job]] describes enormous creatures called behemoth and leviathan, the descriptions matching land and sea dinosaurs respectively.  It may also have referred to another similarly giant now-extinct species.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/behemoth.asp</ref>

[[Dinosaur]] fossils were not discovered until the 19th century, but the book of [[Job]] describes enormous creatures called behemoth and leviathan, the descriptions matching land and sea dinosaurs respectively.  It may also have referred to another similarly giant now-extinct species.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/behemoth.asp</ref>