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Study Section 19: More Questions about Science

19.1 Connect

God knows everything! He wrote the Bible so that we could know just a little about His
mind. He revealed to man of his thoughts about the design of the world and how we should
live in the world to be safe. It would behoove us to pay attention to His guidance.

Today we continue to look at the many scientific facts found in the Bible that were given long
before man discovered them to be true. While the Bible is not a book of science, it supports
true science because His Word is true. Let’s learn more about these discoveries…

19.2 Objectives

1. The student will be able to demonstrate through the hydrologic cycle that it was designed by a
Designer.

2. The student will be able to support the Designer view in the fields of medicine and hygiene,.

3. The student will be able to show that evolution is simply a theory that opposes God and is not
verifiable.

4. The student will demonstrate that every person has biases and there is no such thing a objectivity.

16.3 More scientific facts found in the Bible long before man discovered them

Oceanography

In Ecclesiastes 1:7 we read All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place
where the streams come from there they return again. This statement, considered by itself,
may not seem profound at first glance. But when considered with additional evidence and
other biblical passages, it becomes all the more remarkable. Ecclesiastes 11:3a states that if
the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth. Amos 9:6b tells us that He...calleth for
the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the Lord is His name.

What is explained here is what science calls the hydrologic cycle: water is
dumped into the ocean, condenses into clouds, which bring rain mostly to
the mountains, from where the water then flows back into rivers and into
the oceans. The idea of a complete water cycle was not fully understood
or accepted until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The first
substantial evidence came from experiments of Pierre Perrault and Edme
Mariotte. More than 2,000 years prior to their work, however, the
Scriptures had indicated a water cycle.

God told Noah in Genesis 6:15 to build an ark that measured 300 cubits in length, 50 cubits in width, and
30 cubits in height. This is a ratio of 30 to 5 to 3, length to breadth to height. Until approximately 1858
the ark was the largest seagoing vessel of which we have any written record. As it turns out, the

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