Scientific Facts in the Bible

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By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

  The writer of Hebrews understood this fact 2,000 years ago.  Everything is made of atoms except energy.  Atoms are invisible to the naked eye.  An atom is made up of even smaller particles called protons, neutrons and electrons.  Modern science didn't fully discover the atom until about 100 years ago.  although they had some theories.  

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for the souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

  Up until the 1870s bloodletting was still being practiced by some doctors.  Today we know that blood carries oxygen and fuel to every cell in the body.  There is around 30-40 trillion cells in the human body.

Approximately 2,000 gallons of blood is pumped through the body every day.  When a person is cut and is bleeding, the blood will form blood clotts at the injury site to stop the bleeding.  If a patient goes to the hospital for a medical emergency, one the first things a nurse will do is draw the patient's blood to run tests.  The blood test results can tell the doctor if the patient has an infection, disease, cancer or even a current heart attack.  In fact hospitals will replace a patient's blood in cases blood loss or blood component loss.  The life of the flesh is truely in the blood.   

"Have you entered the springs of the sea?  Or have you walked in search of the depths?

  The book of Job was written between 3,400 and 4,000 years ago.  Think about it.  No way we can see the mountains and valleys or even the springs without modern equipment.

The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.  To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever.  But you, Lord my God, brought my life up from the pit. 

Then the channels of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world were uncovered, ...

Deep sea geysers weren't discovered until 1977.  The deep trenches weren't fully discovered till the late 1940s and 1950s.  The Mariana Trench was sounded in 1872.

the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

  Sometime in the early 1850s Mathew Maury discovered the paths or currents of the oceans.

To establish a weight for the wind, And apportion the waters by measure.

The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north;  The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit.

  Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon between 931-940 years before Jesus was born.

You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me.

He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

"He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams;