Difference between revisions of "Biblical scientific foreknowledge"
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== Specific examples of foreknowledge == | == Specific examples of foreknowledge == | ||
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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. | ||
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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)}} | ||
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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. | ||
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| + | 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 [[red light shift]] proved an expanding, and thus time-limited, universe and vindicated the Bible. | ||
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Biblical scientific foreknowledge is the remarkable content of the Bible, which shows an comprehension of scientific knowledge beyond anything which existed among secular sources at the time when the Bible was composed.
Biblical scientific foreknowledge is an underpinning of creation science, and is widely credited by Christian scientists and apologists, including the organizations Creation Ministries International, Answers in Genesis, and CreationWiki.[2][3][4][5]
Secular organizations and scientists, particularly evolutionists, are fond of denying the Bible's foreknowledge and pointing to alleged scientific absurdities in the Bible, but continued study the ancient source documents routinely, and remarkably, show that these alleged absurdities and contradictions in fact result from poor translation and cultural ignorance.
Specific examples of foreknowledge
Health:
Homosexuality and disease
The Bible's prohibition against homosexuality predated knowledge about the many diseases and disorders associated with homosexuality, and thus showed scientific wisdom prescient for its time.
Cosmology:
Spherical Earth
The Book of Isaiah establishes that the true shape of the earth is a sphere:
| “ | It is He who sits above the circle of the earth... - Isaiah 40:22 (KJV) | ” |
Here, the translation "circle" is inapt, as the Hebrew term entailed something spherical, not flat.
Note that Isaiah was written circa the 8th century BC, centuries before Greek philosophers, beginning with Pythagoras, theorized the earth was round.
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 red light shift proved an expanding, and thus time-limited, universe and vindicated the Bible.
Zoology:
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.[6]
Alleged absurdities and contradictions
Bat as a bird
A favorite evolutionist canard is that Leviticus 11:13-19 labels the bat, a mammal, as a bird. But this is an obvious failure of translation, as the Hebrew term 'owph did not entail the "clade" of birds, but was a non-biological category referring to any winged creature, mammalian, avian, or insect. The KJV translation as "fowl" is simply incorrect.
See Also
External Links
References
- ↑ http://store.nwcreation.net/101scfafo.html
- ↑ http://creationwiki.org/index.php/Bible_scientific_foreknowledge.
- ↑ Bible Scientific Foreknowledge
- ↑ http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1718/
- ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i1/medicine.asp
- ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/behemoth.asp