Scientific Accuracy in the Bible

Some bad claims to beware of...

Automobiles? Joel 2.3-4

Automobiles?

Fire devours in front of them, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them. They have the appearance of horses, and like war-horses they charge.

Joel 2.3-4

Automobiles?

Fire devours in front of them, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them. They have the appearance of horses, and like war-horses they charge.

Joel 2.3-4

NO!

Airplanes? Isaiah 31.5

Airplanes?

Like birds hovering overhead, so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it, he will spare and rescue it.

Isaiah 31.5

Airplanes?

Like birds hovering overhead, so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it, he will spare and rescue it.

Isaiah 31.5

NO!

Oceanography

Oceanography

Matthew Fontaine Maury1806-1873

Oceanography Psalm 8.8

the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

c. 1000 BC

Oceanography

the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

Psalm 8.8 c. 1000 BC

Oceanography

Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38.16 c. 2000 BC

Oceanography

Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38.16 c. 2000 BC

Oceanography

Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38.16 c. 2000 BC

Oceanography

Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38.16 c. 2000 BC

Astronomy

Astronomy

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;

Isaiah 40.22 c. 750 BC

Astronomy

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;

Isaiah 40.22 c. 750 BC

roundness, sphericity

Astronomy

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;

Isaiah 40.22 c. 750 BC

roundness, sphericity

Physics

Physics

Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you endure; they will all wear out like a garment. You change them like clothing, and they pass away;

Psalm 102.25-26c. 1000 BC

Physics

Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you endure; they will all wear out like a garment. You change them like clothing, and they pass away;

Psalm 102.25-26 c. 1000 BC

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Airplane: http://www.public-domain-image.com/vehicles/airplane/slides/airplanes-jets.jpg

Maury: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Commander_Matthew_Fontaine_Maury_USN_painting.jpg

Currents: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Corrientes-oceanicas.gif

Sea Springs: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NnnAVzghHVQ/Tn22xsERJYI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/DcNShO8oeFg/s1600/Humeros+negros.jpg

Mariana Trench: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marianatrenchmap.png

Earth from Apollo 17: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg/1023px-The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg

Ice water: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Ice_water.jpg

Bible with plant: http://static-www.icr.org/i/wide/science_start_bible_wide.jpg