Christian believers the world over claim the Bible to be the inerrant word of an allwise Creator, even when its pages stray into the realm of science. But how do the Bible's many claims stack up against modern scientific knowledge?
TIMESTAMPS!
A. Cosmology
(1) 23:54 The universe was not made in 6 days (Genesis 1:131; Exodus 20:811)
(2) 28:54 Stars do burn out, fail or go “missing” (Isaiah 40:26)
(3) 30:53 Stars could never fall to the earth (Daniel 8:10, Matthew 24:29, Revelation 6:13)
(4) 32:41 Stars don’t determine the outcome of battles or orbit earth (Judges 5:20)
(5) 33:52 Jehovah doesn’t direct the constellations (Job 38:3133)
(6) 34:42 Earth was not made before the sun and stars (Genesis 1:1419)
(7) 35:46 The moon does not emit light (Genesis 1:1419, Isaiah 13:10; 30:26; 60:19, Jeremiah 31:35, Ezekiel 32:78, Matthew 24:29)
(8) 36:21 The sun is not a mere light that can be paused or reversed (Joshua 10:13, 14, 2 Kings 20:11, Amos 8:9, Habakkuk 3:11)
(9) 38:06 The heavens do not have “foundations” or “pillars” (2 Samuel 22:8, Job 26:11)
B. Geology
(10) 40:36 Earth and its geological features are in motion (1 Chronicles 16:30; Psalm 65:6; 93:1; 96:10; 104:8, Proverbs 8:25)
(11) 43:10 Earth is not disc shaped (Isaiah 40:22, compare Isaiah 22:18)
(12) 46:37 Earth does not have “boundaries” or “ends” (Job 38:13, Psalm 74:17, Isaiah 5:26)
(13) 47:12 The earth does not have “four corners” (Isaiah 11:12, Ezekiel 7:2, Revelation 7:1)
(14) 47:26 Earth is not “long” or flat “like clay under a seal” (Job 11:9; 38:5, 14)
(15) 50:16 There is no hypothetical vantage point for viewing the whole earth (Daniel 4:10, 11; Matthew 4:8)
(16) 51:39 The earth has no cornerstone, pillars, supports or foundations (1 Sam 2:8, 2 Sam 22:16, Job 9:6; 38:46, Psalm 75:3; 82:5, Isaiah 24:18; 48:13, Jeremiah 31:37, Micah 6:2, Zechariah 12:1)
(17) 52:05 The sea has no permanently fixed “boundaries” (Job 38:811, Jeremiah 5:22)
(18) 53:58 There are no “gates of death” (Job 38:17)
(19) 54:45 There’s no scientific evidence to support a global flood (Genesis 6:98:19)
C. Meteorology
(20) 56:44 There was never any firmament or canopy above the earth (Genesis 1:68; 8:2)
(21) 57:54 The sky is not solid (Job 37:18)
(22) 59:08 God doesn’t draw up water (Job 36:27, 28)
(23) 1:01:17 God doesn’t direct the weather (Job 38:2529, 3537)
(24) 1:02:29 Snow and hail isn’t “stored” (Job 38:22, 23)
(25) 1:02:51 Rainbows did not begin in 2369 BCE (Genesis 9:1317)
D. Biology
(26) 1:04:14 The first man wasn’t made 6,000 years ago out of dust (Genesis 1:27: 2:7; 3:19)
(27) 1:04:41 The first woman wasn’t made from one of man’s ribs (Genesis 2:1822)
(28) 1:06:47 The origin of humans doesn’t predate rain and vegetation (Genesis 2:57)
(29) 1:09:10 There were no angelhuman hybrid giants (Genesis 6:4)
(30) 1:10:14 God didn’t bring all animal life to one man for naming (Genesis 2:1820)
(31) 1:10:57 Flying creatures did not precede land animals (Genesis 1:2124)
(32) 1:15:53 Life evolved through evolution by natural selection (Genesis 1:2025)
(33) 1:18:51 Animals aren’t in “subjection” to humans (Genesis 1:2627)
(34) 1:20:54 Carnivores did not originate as herbivores (Genesis 1:30)
(35) 1:22:14 Not all animals are terrified of humans (Genesis 9:2)
(36) 1:24:26 Snails don’t melt as they move along (Psalm 58:8)
(37) 1:25:45 There’s no such thing as a flying, fiery snake (Isaiah 30:6)
(38) 1:27:15 A human can’t survive 3 days in the digestive system of a fish (Jonah 1:17)
E. Linguistics
(39) 1:31:57 Human languages didn’t originate at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:59)
F. Mathematics
(40) 1:33:01 The value of pi is not 3, it’s approx. 3.14 (1 Kings 7:2326; 2 Chronicles 4:25)
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