You've probably heard from someone in "mainstream science" that the biblical idea of the earth only being six to ten thousand years old is totally preposterous. They will say that there is no evidence for a young earth or universe. But the age of the earth really cannot be proven, because beyond recorded history, assumptions have to be made about the "clock" being used. And it turns out that there are many evidences that fit a young world much better than they fit a billions of years old world. Since you aren't likely to hear about these because of the current hold that the worldview of long...
We saw from a previous article that if the Bible writer's wanted to convey that the earth was created in six literal days around 6-8,000 years ago, they could not have been much clearer about it than they are in Genesis 1. But many otherwise fine Bible apologists sweep this option aside, even though they know the facts about the text. This is because they believe that the scientific evidence shows clearly that the Earth is billions of years old. But there are also good Bible apologists and credentialed scientists out there that hold to a young earth. Is this second group composed of all crackpots,...
Does the Bible teach that creation took place in seven literal days? Or could it be read as teaching seven long ages of creation? This has been a great debate among Bible believers for centuries, causing some to view the Bible as conflicting with the findings of modern science. As a result, many Bible teachers have felt the need to insist that the creation days aren't literal 24 hour days, in order to make Genesis conform to scientific facts. But two questions need to be asked. First, does Genesis really teach literal days or can it be interpreted as teaching long ages? That will be the subject...
Were Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis just legendary characters? Maybe you've heard that there is good archaeological evidence for the existence of people in the Bible such as King David or King Hezekiah, but Adam and Eve? How could there have been just two people that started the whole human race just 6,000-8,000 years ago? Hasn't it been proven that we evolved from ape-like creatures millions of years ago?
Let's step back and look at the actual evidence. Scientists have been searching for so-called "missing links" for decades. You will read in the average textbook that people...
In our modern society we take for granted the existence of invisible germs and how they can cause illness. What many don't realize is that the Bible writings show anticipation of this modern discovery many centuries before the rest of the world caught on.
The Law of Moses, the Torah, comprises the first five books of the Bible. This law was written soon after Israel had been captive in Egypt, where they were exposed to Egyptian technology, including their medical methods. If you look at Egyptian medicine, they were very advanced in some ways, but primitive in others.The treatment methods...
Often today we see articles and programs where groups of scientists are trying to explain the beginning of the universe, "how we got here". And so many times they strain and struggle to explain this beginning without a beginner, namely, God. So how does the Bible account stack up to modern science?
Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Until the twentieth century it was believed that the universe had always existed, and there was not much known about what it consisted of. In the last century we determined that the universe consists of space, time...
What about dinosaurs? How do they fit in with Adam and Eve, and creation? Well, the word “dinosaur” is not in the Bible because that word, meaning “terrible lizard”, was not invented until about 1840. But there are creatures whose descriptions in the Bible match those of dinosaurs. Probably one of the best ones is the “behemoth”, described in the book of Job, chapter 40:15-24. It was a huge creature with “bones like bars of iron”, further described as follows: “his strength is in his loins” (legs and belly), he moves his “tail like a cedar tree”, and is large...
Last time we looked into the skeptic's charge of a supposed scientific error in the Bible, namely that the rabbit "chews the cud" (Does the Bible contain a scientific error, saying that the rabbit "chews the cud?"?). Now let's look at the rest of Leviticus 11 to answer two more charges: does the Bible say that a bat is a bird, or does the Bible say insects have only four legs? What kind of biology is this?
Well, as we mentioned last time, the Biblical descriptions must be understood in the purpose that the writers used them for, and not called errors if they don'f fit modern scientific taxonomy....
Many people in their bible reading skip through the Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament, saying that all those laws are too tedious or boring. But all those laws and regulations from God have several purposes, among which are to protect the people of Israel from germs and diseases, as well as setting them apart from the idolatrous practices of surrounding nations.
As I talk about in Chapter Two of The Bible Can Be Proven, which covers the subject of scientific and medical knowledge in the Bible that is ahead of it's time, there are regulations which protect against infection by germs...
An amazing biblical anticipation of scientific discovery, seen in the book of Job, is the description of the process of rainfall. The process of rainfall from clouds, the coalescing of small drops of water vapor into larger drops of liquid water to eventually fall as rain was not understood in ancient times as it is today. Yet Job 36:27-28 says, “For he maketh small the drops of water; they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof; which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.”
Henry Morris[1] describes how drops of rain are “made small” as they start off within the clouds...