Is there anything scientific within the Bible? I know it's not a science book yet many Protestants quote numerous verses in it to prove scientific fact such as when scripture quotes "The "circle" of the earth." Or "God hangs the earth upon empty space." And it also mentions Global wind patterens and sea currents that led one individual to discover the currents as he used the Bible's word. Are these simply faith issues or scientific?

What about in the OT where God tells the Jews how to keep clean from "uncleanness." Some protests claim many other tribes suffered illnesses by believing foolish things, yet the Jews usualy were ok from following their law. Even washing blood off utensils after use and circrumsision on the "eigth" day?

-- Brian the Curious (noone @noone.com), December 14, 2004

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Is there anything scientific within the Bible?

{Yes, as ther is sicnec ein almost everyhting... but tis so vauge on the matter that its irrelevant.}-Zarove

I know it's not a science book yet many Protestants quote numerous verses in it to prove scientific fact such as when scripture quotes "The "circle" of the earth." Or "God hangs the earth upon empty space." And it also mentions Global wind patterens and sea currents that led one individual to discover the currents as he used the Bible's word.

{Yesd, I agree, however, mentioning those things does not make the Bible overall a book of sicnece, it only makes it accurate inthe sicnce it observes and mentions.}-Zarove

Are these simply faith issues or scientific?

{Spacofic referneces to wind currents are sceintific, I can tell you that much...}-Zarove

What about in the OT where God tells the Jews how to keep clean from "uncleanness." Some protests claim many other tribes suffered illnesses by believing foolish things, yet the Jews usualy were ok from following their law. Even washing blood off utensils after use and circrumsision on the "eigth" day?

{For the most apt corect, the alws where largly to regulate health.}- Zarove

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), December 14, 2004.

At face value, the question is facetious. God is Omniscient. Omni- all, everything, --scient, --science, knowledge. No other being is omniscient; just God.

But science alone is not wisdom. Wisdom is greater than knowledge, and God has infinite Wisdom; knowing all things, even the hidden thoughts of every heart, and the number of hairs on the heads of His creatures. He knows all that has happened and all that is to happen, and human science has no way to understand what will be, even in a test tube, without proving it first. Man cannot know either all the past, nor the future even in his own house. God knows the future of every atom, every molecule and every particle of matter, forever. We know this, because by definition God cannot be imperfect in any way. He is All-Perfect. Therefore, His every power is infinite; including His knowledge and wisdom.

He inspired the prophets and they wrote the Bible. But even by that Bible our knowledge (science) is limited. We could never read it and know everything. The scriptures are not given mankind for scientific knowledge. No strict knowledge is to be found in the Bible, --even though some men such as Noah were instructed. God gave Noah a ''blueprint'' for his Ark. God can do it if He wishes. He would rather, however, impart wisdom.

That's what God provides for his people in the Holy Bible. Wisdom. But not ALL His infinite wisdom. To give us that, He sent his only- begotten Son, Jesus Christ. We are only wise insofar as we believe in the Son of God. Science could never have brought us this.

-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), December 15, 2004.

Dear Brian, I think there's science in the bible.

There's Cosmogony (A theory of the origin of the universe..which I believe coincidentally) & Cosmology (a branch of astronomy that deals with the origin, structure, and space-time relationships of the universe.) in Genesis.

Astronomy: Saints Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar followed "the star which they had seen in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the child was" (Matthew 2:9)

Anatomy, Internal Medicine, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Pysiology & Surgery: the two brothers, Sts. Cosmas and Damian, who studied medicine in Syria and were martyred under Diocletian. The exercise of practical charity under the direction of deacons of the churches gave rise to systematic nursing and hospitals. Lactantius in the fourth century speaks in his work "De Opificio Dei" about the structure of the human body. One of the most learned priests of his time, St. Isidore of Seville (d. 636), treats of medicine in the fourth book of his "Origines S. Etymologiae". St. Benedict of Nursia (480) made it a duty for the sciences, and among them medicine, as aids to the exercise of hospitality. Cassiodorus gave his monks direct instructions in the study in medicine. Bertharius, Abbot of Monte Cassino in the ninth century, was famous as a physician. Walafrid Strabo (d. 849), Abbot of Reichenau the oldest medical writer on German soil, describes in a poem (Hortulus) the value of native medicinal plants, and also the method of teaching medicine in monasteries. We must mention, furthermore, the "Physica", a description of drugs from the three kingdoms of nature, written by St. Hildegarde (1099-1179), abbess of a monastery near Bingen-on-the- Rhine. The curative properties of minerals are described by Marbodus of Angers, Bishop of Rennes (d. 1123), in his "Lapidarius".

Not to mention Philosophy, History, Law and Mathmatics.

Some of those are 'in' the Bible, and some of those advancements come from people who made the Bible & Chruch thier life. Which is my inept way of saying, are possible because of thier belief in God and the Bible teachings. Love, Grace & Peace, Dorian

In an effort to include people of all faiths: Enlightened Rohastu, Happy Hanukah, Bah Humbug, Merry Christmas, Blessed Winters Solstice/Yule, Abundant Kwanza & Prosperous New Year

-- Dorian (DontAgree_IDontCare@yahoo.com), December 15, 2004.