You know what's funny? It seems to me that people dismiss the Bible as a fantastical book about myths and legends in many cases. It certainly isn't a book about pure science but it does contain scientific fact which is amazing because many of these things were not discovered until thousands of years after the writing of the bible. Which means that someone very intelligent who knew about these things before anyone else told the writers about it.
Example 1. The creation. The Bible says that god made everything in 6 days. That is the translation in english. But what people don't realize is that in hebrew (the language from which that part of the bible was translated) the word 'day' can mean any length of time. Each day the bible talks about is a period of creation, a division of time that is not specific. Not a literal 24 hour day. Which means that when scientists tell you that the earth is billions of years old, the bible doesn't contradict. It simply leaves out the length of time each day represents (why, because knowing how old the universe is shouldn't affect devotion to the creator). The bible even is acurate about the order of appearance of life on earth. And it says nothing to contradict the existence of species predating humanity by long periods of time.
Example 2. Fingerprints. Don't laugh. In Job chapter 37 verse 7 the bible says 'On the hand of every earthly man god puts a seal so that every mortal man may know his works.' Thats roughly from memory look it up for yourself. Did you know that fingerprints weren't even considered for identifying someone until the 1850's. And this biblical text was written over 3000 years ago. Impressive no?
Oh and doesn't stop there. The bible says the earth is sperical in shape and god suspends it above nothing. Now who read the bible and thought the earth was flat... i mean really. Well I could drone on and on but this would get much longer. And I'm tired now. hehe.
The bible is also historicaly accurate (ancient cities thought to have never existed were found with the aid of the bibles descriptions).
...and that is how I saved the world.
Last edited by dockode; 25-09-2006 at 06:40 AM.