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Biblical scientific foreknowledge (view source)
Revision as of 04:36, September 27, 2010
, 04:36, September 27, 2010a good Catholic proved the Bible right re: "innumerable" stars
===Number of Stars===
===Number of Stars===
The [[Bible]] repeatedly refers to the number of stars as being innumerable,<ref>''See'' Genesis 15:5, Jeremiah 33:22 and Hebrews 11:12.</ref> despite scientists insisting throughout most of history that there were only about 6000 stars.
The [[Bible]] repeatedly refers to the number of stars as being innumerable,<ref>''See'' Genesis 15:5, Jeremiah 33:22 and Hebrews 11:12.</ref> despite scientists insisting throughout most of history that there were only about 6000 stars. In the early 17th century [[Galileo]] turned a telescope to the heavens and discovered a great number of stars that had been previously invisible to the naked eye. [http://galileo.rice.edu/lib/student_work/astronomy95/orionpleiades.html]
Not until the 20th century did scientists discover the tremendous number of stars:
Not until the 20th century did scientists discover the tremendous number of stars: