Scientific Facts in the

Bible

Ray Comfort AUGUST 7, 2019

Founder & CEO, Living Waters

This article is about scientific statements contained in the Bible. I hope you
are looking at it with a good deal of skepticism. So you should. The world is
filled with simple folk who will make a shrine to a knot in a tree because it
supposedly has the features of a dead “saint.” You are wise to consider the
evidence before deciding whether something is true.

Before we look at these “scientific facts” in the Bible, I must preface them
with some important information. To do this, I will quote the Bible. This is
not “circular reasoning”; I simply want to make a point that is relevant to
what I am going to present.

Many years ago, I ran a children’s club. One day I told about one hundred
kids to line up for candy. There was an immediate rush, and the line sorted
itself into what I saw as being a line of greed. The bigger, selfish kids were at
the front, and the small and timid ones were at the back. I then did
something that gave me great satisfaction: I told the kids to turn about face.
Everyone did. Then I told them to stay where they were, and I took great
delight in going to the other end of the line and giving the candy to the
smaller, timid kids first.

In a world where the rich and powerful often take advantage of the poor and
meek, we are informed that God has gone to the other end of the line with
the message of everlasting life (you may not believe in the existence of God,
but please bear with me). Here is what we are told:

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing…For
it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the
understanding of the prudent.”…But God has chosen the foolish things of the
world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the
world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of
the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things
which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should
glory in His presence. (1 Corinthians 1:18,19,27–29)

How has God gone to the other end of the line? Simply by choosing that
which is foolish, weak, base, and despised. Let me illustrate. Do you believe
that the following biblical accounts actually happened?
 Adam and Eve
Noah’s ark
Jonah and the whale
Joshua and the walls of Jericho
Samson and his long hair
Daniel and the lion’s den
Moses and the Red Sea

If you’re an atheist, of course you don’t. To say that you believed such
fantastic stories would require that you surrender your intellectual dignity.
Who in their right mind would ever do that? The answer is simply those who
understand that God has chosen foolish, weak, base, and despised things of the
world to confound those who think they are wise.

Consider the intellectual offense in the tone of this letter I received, prior to
a debate I had on the subject “Does God exist?”:

How sad for you to have so completely surrendered your intellect to an

ignorant, pre-scientific book. I know about your upcoming debate…I
won’t be there, but I’m sure the audience will get some good belly
laughs from your presentation. Biblical literalists may not be very
bright, but they are extremely funny.

Where’s the Evidence?

Imagine that you are viewing a luxury liner moving through calm waters. To
your amazement about a dozen people jump off the ship and cling to a
lifeboat. You watch as the rest of the passengers stand on the ship and laugh
at them. You can understand their reaction. What those few people did was
foolish. It made no sense.
Suddenly, the ship hits an unseen iceberg and sinks, taking with it all who
stayed on board. Now you see that those who seemed like fools were wise,
but those who stayed on the ship and seemed to be wise were fools.

We have in the Bible a command to jump off the luxury liner of this world.
Before you laugh at stupid Christians, ask yourself if there is any proof that
its claims are true. The following is compelling evidence that the Bible is no
ordinary book.

EARTH’S FREE FLOAT IN SPACE

Job 26:7 (written 3,500 years ago): “He stretches out the north over empty
space; He hangs the earth on nothing.”

The Bible proclaims that the earth freely floats in space. Some in ancient
times thought that the earth sat on a large animal. We now know that the
earth has a free float in space.

THE EARTH IS ROUND

Isaiah 40:22 (written 2,800 years ago): “It is He who sits above the circle of the
earth.”

The Bible informs us that the earth is round. Though it once was commonly
believed the earth was flat, it was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher
Columbus to sail around the world. He wrote: “It was the Lord who put it
into my mind…There is no question the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit
because He comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy
Scriptures…” (from his diary, in reference to his discovery of “the New
World”).
FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
Genesis 2:1 (after creation): “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host
of them, were finished.”

The Hebrew word used here is the past definite tense for the verb “finished,”
indicating an action completed in the past, never again to occur. The
creation was “finished”—once and for all. That is exactly what the First Law
of Thermodynamics says.

This law (also referred to as the Law of the Conservation of Energy and/or
Mass) states that neither matter nor energy can be either created or
destroyed. There is no “creation” ongoing today. It is “finished” exactly as the
Bible states.

SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

Psalm 102:25,26: “Of old You founded the earth, and the heavens are the work
of Your hands. Even they will perish, but You endure; and all of them will wear
out like a garment” (NASB).

The Bible tells us three times that the earth is wearing out like a garment.
This is what the Second Law of Thermodynamics (the Law of Increasing
Entropy) states: that in all physical processes, every ordered system over
time tends to become more disordered. Everything is running down and
wearing out as energy is becoming less and less available for use. That
means the universe will eventually “wear out”—something that wasn’t
discovered by science until fairly recently.

THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE

Amos 9:6 (written 2,800 years ago): “He…calls for the waters of the sea, and
pours them out on the face of the earth…”

The Mississippi River dumps over six million gallons of water per second into
the Gulf of Mexico. Where does all that water go? That’s just one of
thousands of rivers. The answer lies in the hydrologic cycle—something not
fully understood until the 17th century, but so well brought out in the Bible.
The Scriptures inform us, “All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not
full; to the place from which the rivers come, there they return again”
(Ecclesiastes 1:7). Psalm 135:7 tells us, “He causes the vapors to ascend from
the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain.” Ecclesiastes 11:3
states that “if the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the
earth.”

THE SCIENCE OF OCEANOGRAPHY

Psalm 8:8: “…and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.”

The sea is just a huge mass of water; how could it have “paths”? Man
discovered the existence of ocean currents in the 1850s, but the Bible
declared the science of oceanography 2,800 years ago. Matthew Maury
(1806–1873), considered the father of oceanography, noticed the expression
“paths of the sea” in Psalm 8. Maury took God at His word and went looking
for these paths, and his vital book on oceanography is still in print today.

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE

Genesis 2:7: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”
While scientists in the 21st century admit they have “lots of theories, little
science” about the origin of life, the Bible tells us clearly how life began,
based on the word of the only One who was there at the beginning.

“The likelihood of the spontaneous formation of life from inanimate matter

is one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it…It is big enough to bury
Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup,
neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not
random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful
intelligence.” —Sir Fred Hoyle, professor of astronomy, Cambridge University

THE ORIGIN OF SEXES

Matthew 19:4: “He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and
female.’”

Almost all forms of complex life have both male and female—horses, dogs,
humans, fish, moths, monkeys, elephants, birds, etc. The male needs the
female to reproduce, and the female needs the male to reproduce. One
cannot carry on life without the other. But if evolution were true, which
then came first according to the theory?

If a male came into being before a female, how did the male of each species
reproduce without females? How is it possible that a male and a female each
spontaneously came into being, yet they have complex, complementary
reproductive systems? If each sex was able to reproduce without the other,
why (and how) would they have developed a reproductive system that
requires both sexes in order for the species to survive?

COUNTLESS STARS
Jeremiah 33:22 (written 2,500 years ago): “As the host of heaven cannot be
numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured…”

The Bible asserts there are countless stars (described here as the “host of
heaven”). When this statement was recorded, no one knew how vast the
stars were, as fewer than 1,100 were observable. That’s as many as Ptolemy
was able to catalog in The Almagest. Now we know that there are countless
billions of stars—an estimated 1025 stars in the observable universe—and
that they cannot be numbered.

BLOOD IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE

Leviticus 17:11 (written 3,500 years ago): “For the life of the flesh is in the
blood.”

The Scriptures declare that blood is the source of life. Up until two hundred
years ago, sick people were “bled,” and many died because of the practice.
We now know that blood is the source of life. It carries water and
nourishment to every cell, removes the waste material from cells, and
maintains the body’s temperature. This vital element also carries oxygen
from the lungs throughout the body. If you lose your blood, you will lose
your life.

BLOOD CLOTTING
Genesis 17:12: “He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every
male child in your generations…”

Why was circumcision to be carried out on the eighth day? Medical science
has only recently discovered that blood clotting in a newborn reaches its
peak on that day. That’s when the coagulating factors in the blood are at
optimal levels: vitamin K doesn’t reach sufficient quantity until after day
seven, and day eight is when prothrombin is the highest, reaching 110
percent of the normal level.

LAWS OF HYGIENE
Leviticus 15:13 (written 3,500 years ago): “And when he who has a discharge is
cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his
cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in running water; then he shall
be clean.”

The Bible states that when dealing with disease, hands should be washed
under running water. Until the 1800s doctors washed their hands in a basin
of still water, leaving invisible germs and resulting in countless deaths. We
now know to wash hands under running water. The Encyclopedia Britannica
documents that in 1845, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis in Vienna was horrified at the
terrible death rate of women who gave birth in hospitals. As many as 30
percent died after giving birth. Semmelweis noted that doctors would
examine patients who died, then go straight to the next ward and examine
expectant mothers. This was their normal practice, because the presence of
microscopic diseases was unknown. Semmelweis insisted that doctors wash
their hands before examinations, and the death rate immediately dropped to
2 percent.

LAWS OF QUARANTINE
Leviticus 13:46 (written 3,500 years ago): “All the days he has the sore he shall
be unclean. He is un­clean, and he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be
outside the camp.”
Long before medical science discovered the importance of quarantining
persons with infectious diseases, the Bible instructed it. In 1490 BC the
Scriptures tell what to do if someone has a skin condition like leprosy. Laws
of quarantine were not instigated by modern man until the seventeenth
century.

“During the devastating Black Death of the fourteenth century, patients who
were sick or dead were kept in the same rooms as the rest of the family.
People often wondered why the disease was affecting so many people at one
time. They attributed these epidemics to ‘bad air’ or ‘evil spirits.’ However,
careful attention to the medical commands of God as revealed in Leviticus
would have saved untold millions of lives. Arturo Castiglione wrote about the
overwhelming importance of this biblical medical law: ‘The laws against
leprosy in Leviticus 13 may be regarded as the first model of sanitary
legislation’ (A History of Medicine).” —Grant R. Jeffery, The Signature of God

THE DISAPPEARING DINOSAUR

Job 40:15–24 (written 3,500 years ago): “Look now at the behemoth, which I
made along with you; he eats grass like an ox. See now, his strength is in his
hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar;
the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit. His bones are like beams of bronze, his
ribs like bars of iron. He is the first of the ways of God; only He who made him
can bring near His sword

“Surely the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play
there. He lies under the lotus trees, in a covert of reeds and marsh. The lotus
trees cover him with their shade; the willows by the brook surround him.
Indeed the river may rage, yet he is not disturbed; he is confident, though the
Jordan gushes into his mouth, though he takes it in his eyes, or one pierces his
nose with a snare.”

Why did the dinosaur disappear? This is something that has modern science
mystified, but the Bible may have the answer:

This was the largest of all the creatures God made.

It was plant-eating (herbivorous).
It had tremendous strength in its hips and belly.
Its tail was like a large tree (a cedar).
Its bones were as strong as bronze and iron.
Its habitat was among the trees.
It could stand unmoved in the midst of a raging river.
It was impervious to snares.

Then Scripture says, “Only He who made him can bring near His sword.” This
massive creature could not be threatened by man, but only by its Creator.
Perhaps God caused this, the largest of all the creatures He had made, to
become extinct.

The Bible’s 100 Percent Accurate Prophecies

THE BIRTH OF A NATION

Prophecies from the Old and New Testaments that have been fulfilled also
add credibility to the Bible. For example, in Isaiah 66:7,8 (700 BC), the
prophet gives a strange prophecy: “Shall the earth be made to give birth in
one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor,
she gave birth to her children.”
In 1922 the League of Nations gave Great Britain the mandate (political
authority) over Palestine. On May 14, 1948, Britain withdrew her mandate,
and the nation of Israel was “born in a day.”

There are more than twenty-five Bible prophecies concerning Palestine that
have been literally fulfilled. Probability estimations conclude that the
chances of these being randomly fulfilled are less than one chance in 33
million.

THE RISE AND FALL OF NATIONS AND LEADERS

The Scriptures predicted the rise and fall of great empires like Greece and
Rome (Daniel 2:39,40), and foretold the destruction of cities like Tyre and
Sidon (Isaiah 23). Tyre’s demise is recorded by ancient historians, who tell
how Alexander the Great lay siege to the city for seven months. King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had failed in his thirteen-year attempt to
capture the seacoast city and completely destroy its inhabitants.

During the siege of 573 BC, much of the population of Tyre moved to its new
island home approximately half a mile off the coast. Here it remained
surrounded by walls as high as 150 feet until judgment fell in 332 BC with the
arrival of Alexander the Great. In the seven-month siege, he fulfilled the
remainder of the prophecies (Zechariah 9:4; Ezekiel 26:12) concerning the
city at sea by completely destroying Tyre, killing 8,000 of its inhabitants and
selling 30,000 of its population into slavery. To reach the island, he scraped
up the dust and rubble of the old land city of Tyre, just like the Bible
predicted, and cast it into the sea, building a 200-foot-wide causeway out to
the island.
Another startling prophecy was Jesus’ detailed prediction of Jerusalem’s
destruction, and the further dispersion of the Jewish people throughout the
world, which is recorded in Luke 21. In AD 70, not only was Jerusalem
destroyed by Titus, the future emperor of Rome, but another prediction of
Jesus (Matthew 24:1,2) came to pass: the complete destruction of the
Jerusalem temple.

THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH

In Daniel chapter 9, the Bible prophesied the timeline of the coming of the
one and only Jewish Messiah, prior to the temple’s demise. Five centuries in
advance, the Bible gives a precise and accurate countdown from when King
Artaxerxes would give the decree to restore Jerusalem in 445 BC to the
crucifixion of Christ in AD 33, culminating in the temple’s destruction in AD
70.

Some argue that prophecies like this must have been written after the
events took place, to make the Bible appear supernatural. However, any
historian can attest that the Jewish Scriptures had already been completed,
translated into the Greek Septuagint, and widely published before Jesus’
birth.

In the following description, see if you can identify who is being referred to:

He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our

iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him…And the Lord
has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was
afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he opened not
 his mouth…He was cut off from the land of the living; for the
transgressions of My people he was stricken.

Who do you think this text is speaking about? If you said Jesus Christ, you
would be correct. What you may not realize is that this description was
given 700 years before Jesus’ birth in the Book of Isaiah (chapter 53). This is
another clear foretelling of the Savior given hundreds of years before His
birth. While many have died for noble causes through the centuries, Jesus
alone uniquely embodies these words—so that we could easily identify Him
as the Savior.

ASTOUNDING MATHEMATICAL ODDS

The Old Testament prophets declared, among many other things, that the
Messiah would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) to a virgin (Isaiah 7:14), be
betrayed for thirty pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12,13), die by crucifixion
(Psalm 22), and be buried in a rich man’s tomb (Isaiah 53:9). There was only
one person who fits all of the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament,
who publicly performed countless miracles, made the crippled walk and the
blind see, resurrected the dead, taught the most profound words ever
uttered, and then died for the sins of the people, all before AD 70: Jesus of
Nazareth, the Son of Mary.

Couldn’t Jesus have “accidentally” fulfilled all the dozens of prophecies? No.
The scientific probability that any one person could fulfill just eight of these
prophecies is 1 in 10 17.

Now let’s try to imagine the likelihood of that. If we took that number of
silver dollars (100,000,000,000,000,000), drew a black X on only one, and
laid them over the state of Texas, they would cover the entire state two feet
deep. Now blindfold a man and tell him to travel as far as he wishes and then
pick up only one silver dollar, and it must be the marked one. What chance
would he have of picking up the right one? It would be exactly the same
odds that just eight of the messianic prophecies would all come true in any
one person—yet they all came true in Christ (adapted from Science Speaks by
Peter Stoner).

Even one real case of fulfilled prophecy would be sufficient to establish the
Bible’s supernatural origin. But in all, there are over three hundred
prophecies that tell of the ancestry, birth, life, ministry, death, resurrection,
and ascension of Jesus of Nazareth. All have been literally fulfilled to the
smallest detail.

Over 25 percent of the entire Bible contains specific predictive prophecies

that have been literally fulfilled. This is true of no other book in the world.
And it is a sure sign of its divine origin.

What Does All This Mean?

Here is the incredible implication. If God did write the Bible through the
pens of men (see 2 Timothy 3:16), then its terrible warning of Hell and
incredible promise of Heaven are therefore true and need to be heeded. How
then can a person find everlasting life?

Most think that it’s by living a good life. That seems right, but according to
the Bible, it is wrong. Our mistake is that we think God’s standards are the
same as ours. Let’s look at the Ten Commandments, God’s moral Law, to see
if we have kept His standards: Have you ever told a lie (even once)? Have you
ever stolen anything (the value is irrelevant)? If you said “Yes” to those two
questions, you cannot enter Heaven, because you are a lying thief. If you
hate someone, you are a murderer in God’s sight (1 John 3:15). Jesus said,
“Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery
with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:27,28). Have you ever done that? Have you
ever jealously desired anything that belonged to someone else? If you have
(and who hasn’t?), then you’ve broken the Tenth Commandment. Have you
loved God above all else? Have you made a god to suit yourself? Have you
ever used His holy name as a cuss word? Have you kept the Sabbath holy?
Have you always honored your parents?

Listen to your conscience. Remember all those secret sins you thought no
one knew about. God has seen them, and He will bring every work into
judgment, including every secret thing. We are guilty criminals who have
broken the moral Law, and to offer God anything in the area of good works,
etc., is an attempt to bribe the Judge of the universe. The only thing that can
save us from His wrath is His mercy, and that can’t be earned. It doesn’t
matter if you don’t believe in God or in Judgment Day; you will still have to
face Him.

But because God is rich in mercy, He sent His Son, Jesus of Nazareth, to
suffer and die on the cross, taking the punishment for sinners. He was
bruised for our iniquities. The Bible tells us, “God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans
5:8). Jesus suffered and died, and then He rose from the dead. If we repent
and trust in the Savior alone, God will forgive us and grant us eternal life:
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves;
it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” (Ephesians 2:8,9).
How could we earn His mercy by “doing” anything? It is a fatal mistake to
believe that God can be bribed.
Allow me to share an illustration to offer further insight. An African chief got
wind of a mutiny being planned in his tribe. In an effort to quash the revolt,
he called the tribe together and said that anyone caught in rebellion would
be given one hundred lashes, without mercy. To the chief’s dismay, he soon
found out that the one behind the revolt was his own brother—trying to
overthrow him to become the head of the tribe. Everyone thought the chief
would break his word. But being a just man, he had his brother tied to a tree.
Then he had himself tied next to him, and he took those one hundred lashes
across his own bare flesh, in his brother’s place. In doing so, he not only kept
his word (justice was done), but he also demonstrated his great love and
forgiveness toward his brother.

That’s what God did for sinners, 2,000 years ago. He became a Man in Jesus
Christ, and died on the cross to pay the death penalty for guilty criminals.
The Bible says, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”
(John 3:16). Sinners broke the Law; Jesus paid their fine. It’s that simple.

Please, come to your senses and obey the gospel. There is no second chance:
“It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews
9:27). What will you say on Judgment Day? “Hare don’t chew cud?” Will you
be worried about where Cain got his wife? Will your defense be that insects
don’t have four legs? What do they have to do with the fact that you have
sinned against Almighty God? God is not willing that any should perish. The
Bible says, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses
and forsakes them will have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13).

If you will admit that you have broken the Commandments, cry out to God
and humbly ask Him to forgive your sins (name them). Come to Him,
understanding that nothing you can do could merit everlasting life. Trust
entirely in the mercy that He offers in Jesus Christ. Repent and put your
faith in the Savior (not in man, in a church, or in your good works) for your
salvation. Then show your gratitude by obeying His command to be
baptized. Make sure to also attend a Christ-centered church, and read the
Bible daily and obey what you read.

Thank you for being open-minded enough to read this booklet. My

motivation for writing it was solely a concern for your eternal salvation. I
earnestly hope you have made peace with God.

Yours faithfully,
Ray Comfort

This article was taken from the 28-page booklet “Scientific Facts in the
Bible.”
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