scientific insights

The Bible contains many scientific insights that mainstream science didn’t uncover for centuries. What more can we learn by studying this incredible book?

  • The biblical record: Genesis 1:1; John 1:1; 2 Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 11:3; Titus 1:2; 1 Corinthians 2:7
    The scientific record: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity – 1916 (Scientific observations like Hubble and COBE followed)

  • First Law of Thermodynamics (energy cannot be created or destroyed)

    The biblical record: Genesis 2:2–3; Psalms 148:6; Isaiah 40:26; Hebrews 4:3,4,10; 2 Peter 3:3–7
    The scientific record: Joule, Mayer – 1842

  • Second Law of Thermodynamics (entropy—things move from a state of order to disorder)scientific insights

    The biblical record: Psalms 102:25–26; Isaiah 51:6; Matthew 24:35; Romans 8:20–22; 1 John 2:17; Hebrews 12:27
    The scientific record: Clausius – 1850

  • The biblical record: Genesis 1:21–31, 7:1–16; 1 Corinth 15:38–39
    The scientific record: Linnaeus – 1735

  • Hydrologic Cycle

    The biblical record: Job 26:8, 36:27–28; Ecclesiastes 1:7  
    The scientific record: Perrault & Mariotte – 1700s

  • The biblical record: Leviticus 17:11
    The scientific record: Harvey – 1628

  • The biblical record: Leviticus 25:4
    The scientific record: Roman Empire – 200 B.C.

    scientific insights

  • Light has Motion

The biblical record: Job 38:19–20
The scientific record: Newton, Huygens – 1600s

  • Air has Weight
    The biblical record: Job 28:25
    The scientific record: Torricelli – 1643 (barometric pressure)
  • The biblical record: Psalms 8:8
    The scientific record: Fontaine Maury – 1855

  • The biblical record: Ecclesiastes 1:6
    The scientific record: Satellite Discoveries – 1960s

  • The biblical record: Leviticus 13:45–46 (infection and quarantine)
    Numbers 19 (sterilization and the dead)
    Leviticus 11:29–40 (sterilization regarding food)
    Leviticus 12 (sterilization and childbirth)
    Leviticus 15 (sterilization regarding bodily discharges)
    Leviticus 13 (sterilization and infection)
    Leviticus 6:8-13 (burning and washing as methods of sterilization)
    Deuteronomy 23:12–14 (disposal of human waste)scientific insights
    Numbers 19 (disposal of dead)
    The scientific record: Plague quarantines of the 16th and 17th centuries; Lister – 1865