Scientific facts in the Bible:
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[quote]1. Information in the blood.[/quote]
This is not information found in the Bible. All it describes is the recognition that living things need their blood to live.
There's no no description whatsoever of the sorts of things science can glean from a studying a blood sample.
Your quote describes blood magic sacrifice, not that knowledge about health can be gained by examining the blood.
[quote]2. The Bible and Oceanography.
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People have been traveling the oceans for a very long time. I'm not sure why it should be considered divinely inspired knowledge to describe ocean currents.
And is Jonah talking about underwater mountains or is he talking about the roots of the terrestrial mountains being at the bottom of the sea?
[quote]3. Light waves and radio waves.[/quote]
lol aw hell no! Come on. God is just telling Job how great he is and how dumb job is for questioning him. Unless you think god was using radios to communicate than this is nothing but poetic language because the ancient Hebrews damn sure didn't read this scripture and start making walkie talkies.
[quote]5. The First Law of Thermodynamics.[/quote]
I think you mean the second law because that's the one that describes entropy which is erroneously deployed to deny evolution. It fails because the earth is not a closed system. Denying evolution is a glaring flaw of the Bible, not a scientific truth ahead of its time.
The first law says that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
[quote]6. The Bible and Good Hygiene.
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People have washed things in water for ages. A shame god didn't mention soap because that would have actually made a much bigger difference.
People can know what works without knowing why it works. It seems like an unnecessary leap to attribute it to divine knowledge.
[quote]7. The Bible and getting medicine from plants[/quote]
lol come on.
Using plants as medicine is NOT something that has been recently discovered or was unknown before the Bible.
All cultures across the planet separated by time and geography from the Hebrews have used plants as medicine.
Honestly this might be the weakest point here. There is absolutely no reason to consider herbal medicine as knowledge only revealed by a god.
Here's the problem i have with taking Bible passages and forcing meaning into them based on our modern understanding of science.
The fact is that all this amazing, divine knowledge was [i]unknown[/i] to the people to whom it was apparently revealed. It was not actionable, it gave them nothing. They could do nothing with this revelation until science actually figured out how this stuff worked and allowed humans to make use of it.
That just smacks of a post hoc attribution of insight where there was none.
Anyway, that's my two cents.
This is not information found in the Bible. All it describes is the recognition that living things need their blood to live.
There's no no description whatsoever of the sorts of things science can glean from a studying a blood sample.
Your quote describes blood magic sacrifice, not that knowledge about health can be gained by examining the blood.
[quote]2. The Bible and Oceanography.
[/quote]
People have been traveling the oceans for a very long time. I'm not sure why it should be considered divinely inspired knowledge to describe ocean currents.
And is Jonah talking about underwater mountains or is he talking about the roots of the terrestrial mountains being at the bottom of the sea?
[quote]3. Light waves and radio waves.[/quote]
lol aw hell no! Come on. God is just telling Job how great he is and how dumb job is for questioning him. Unless you think god was using radios to communicate than this is nothing but poetic language because the ancient Hebrews damn sure didn't read this scripture and start making walkie talkies.
[quote]5. The First Law of Thermodynamics.[/quote]
I think you mean the second law because that's the one that describes entropy which is erroneously deployed to deny evolution. It fails because the earth is not a closed system. Denying evolution is a glaring flaw of the Bible, not a scientific truth ahead of its time.
The first law says that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
[quote]6. The Bible and Good Hygiene.
[/quote]
People have washed things in water for ages. A shame god didn't mention soap because that would have actually made a much bigger difference.
People can know what works without knowing why it works. It seems like an unnecessary leap to attribute it to divine knowledge.
[quote]7. The Bible and getting medicine from plants[/quote]
lol come on.
Using plants as medicine is NOT something that has been recently discovered or was unknown before the Bible.
All cultures across the planet separated by time and geography from the Hebrews have used plants as medicine.
Honestly this might be the weakest point here. There is absolutely no reason to consider herbal medicine as knowledge only revealed by a god.
Here's the problem i have with taking Bible passages and forcing meaning into them based on our modern understanding of science.
The fact is that all this amazing, divine knowledge was [i]unknown[/i] to the people to whom it was apparently revealed. It was not actionable, it gave them nothing. They could do nothing with this revelation until science actually figured out how this stuff worked and allowed humans to make use of it.
That just smacks of a post hoc attribution of insight where there was none.
Anyway, that's my two cents.
BlueSkyKing · M
What about all the life unseen by the naked eye? The bacteria that are both beneficial and lethal. Such knowledge isn’t needed?
* writes this comment in blood*
tacobell · 26-30, M
SkeetSkeet · 100+, F
tacobell · 26-30, M
iamonfire696 · 36-40, F
I didn’t read any of this just so you know 😬
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