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Science and the Bible are NOT in conflict. In fact, science confirms the Bible. It is the presuppositions
and beliefs of some scientists who want to remove God from the observable world that fall in conflict
with the Bible. Let’s look at some astonishing scientific facts presented in the Bible:

Scientific facts found in the Bible long before man discovered them
(from https://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/ti/kreitz/Christian/Apologetics/all.pdf)

The Bible contains accurate scientific information about things that the writers could not have known.
Some of these concern fairly recent scientific discoveries or insights, so even a skeptic's dating of biblical
sources can't explain this type of evidence away.

Astronomy
In Isaiah 40:22 we read ``He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth''.
The Hebrew word Isaiah used for circle is the word khug, which means
literally something with roundness, a sphere. But the people of Isaiah's day
thought the Earth was flat - actually they did so until the late middle ages,
2000 years after Isaiah was written. Later it was discovered that the Earth
was not flat; rather it was a khug. Isaiah had been correct all along, even
when the people of his day emphatically stated the opposite.

In Job 38:31,33 God asks Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades - can you lose the cords of Orion? ... Do you
know the laws of the heavens? For a long time people didn't really know what God was trying to tell Job
here. Only in the 20th century astronomers discovered details about the stars that we see as
constellations in the sky. And in fact, the Pleiades are just a bunch of stars that appear to be in the same
spot in the universe - but in reality they are extremely far away from each other and not connected at
all: you can't bind them together because there are lots of other stars ``in between''. In contrast to that
the stars in Orion are quite close to each other, and in fact linked in the sense that they move along the
same path through space.

Creation vs. Evolution

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