How advanced was the scientific knowledge of biblical people?

Question

Did they know lightning was electricity from clouds?(or did they think it was God)

Answer 1

It was Benjamin Franklin who proved that lightening was electricity and not the result of voodoo, Gods, or other mumbo-jumbo.

The Biblical folks were a couple thousand years shy of that. They were pre-Copernican, pre-Newtonian, and pre-Darwinian illiterate goat herders who actually had to appeal to their God for a ruling on the practice of having sex with sheep. They managed to get lost in an area the size of West Virginia for 40 years, while suffering 80% mortality (compare that with Lewis and Clark who, in less than 3 years traveled 7,000 miles with just one loss of life).

Their scientific knowledge was such that when it came time to come up with a creation myth, all they could think of was to make man out of dirt and woman out of man’s rib (the extent of their knowledge of human anatomy and veterinary science was that both sheep and men [at least] have ribs – apparently they did not spend as much time examining women’s chests – go figure).

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So, we are to take from that God’s hatred of science. If that is the case, why do Christians subject themselves to the practitioners of modern medicine which is based on the Satanic theory of biological evolution? That must really tick-off God.

You are aware that ‘Babel’ is remarkably close to ‘bab-ilu’, the original Akkadian word meaning something like ‘Gate of God’. The confusion in translation no doubt stems from the fact that the people doing the translating were bigoted morons – one of Christianity’s most enduring characteristics.

Answer 2

The honest answer to this question is it depends.

If you take a SNAP SHOT of a specific point in time in Biblical History then you can ask what did the people of the Bible understand about science in 1200 B.C. The Biblical people had about just as much scientific knowledge as the other socities around them during that specific time. Once in awhile, a particular society would stick out because of a great inventor, discoverer, or scientist. Like a certain group of people learned how to shape IRON into weapons before the Hebrews.

As Science progessed, and time progessed simulatenously so did the Hebrew people.

The whole thing about lightning....well if you take a snap shot in the time of Job, the days of the patriachs, its clear by the reading that they viewed God as placing each lightning bolt.

Answer 3

"no real disagreement can exist between the theologian and the scientist provided each keeps within his own limits. . . . If nevertheless there is a disagreement . . . it should be remembered that the sacred writers, or more truly ‘the Spirit of God who spoke through them, did not wish to teach men such truths (as the inner structure of visible objects) which do not help anyone to salvation’; and that, for this reason, rather than trying to provide a scientific exposition of nature, they sometimes describe and treat these matters either in a somewhat figurative language or as the common manner of speech those times required, and indeed still requires nowadays in everyday life, even amongst most learned people" (Leo XIII, Providentissimus Deus 18).

Answer 4

you mean like the geico comercial where the cave guy sets the stage for all of humanity by struggling to walk upright discovering fire and inventing the wheel yeah scientific knowledge of the primitive superstious was not well put in comparison to now a days.you answer the question well enough remeber Zeus was the god of lightning bolts around the same time period .those people were indeed scratching their heads .

Answer 5

Probably thought it was God

However, some evidence shows Egyptians were doing BRAIN surgery back then!

Chinese discovered the Loadstone before Jesus but they didn't make the Compass until 1000 AD

Man, apprently, is a little slow.

Edison sold his "dead" patents to Tesla, including a tube that he was working on for a failed electric light that turned out to be the DIODE

Some people are dense or really need to understand Ohms Law.

Answer 6

They thought lightning was God, and they were not very intelligent at all. This is the BIBLE people we are talking about though. (men who wrote the bible)

Now the Myans, they were totally different! There were many ancient cultures who were very intelligent, and whom I believe had either help from aliens, or thier superior knowlege has been lost to time.

Carvings of brain surgery have been found on cave walls thousands of years old. There were intelligent civilizations, such as Atlantis, but you won't find them in the bible!!

Answer 7

the people of babel were known to have started scientific knowledge. and we all know what happened to babalyon?

Genesis 11:8,9
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

God bless you I hope this helps you to understand the truth.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

It depends. The Bible spans 6000 years of history. The Greeks had calculated the circumference of the earth hundreds of years before the Bible was complete.

Answer 10

Not very advanced. In fact, they pretty much knew jack ****. But, they had faith.

That uh, lightning was, uh, God.