what do atheists think of all the un-changing scientific facts in the bible?

Question

and the un changing prophetic facts

http://evidencebible.com/witnessingtool/scientificfactsintheBible.shtml

srry i thought most ppl knew

Answer 1

everyone should be addressed
otherwise its troilling if you just address UNRELIgious people in religion
someday they will believe when Jesus comes back!!

Answer 2

many of these things where already known either before the bible was written or without the help of the bible.

at the time columbus sailed across the atlantic only the uneducated thought the earth was flat.

and as for the washing of hands, nobody knew of germs or anything like that. thats not the reason they washed there hands, they washed because it worked and less babies died. they didnt know why it worked it just did.

and its common sense that if you lose blood you will die. this fact is known to every civilization out there from the most ancient to the most recent.

and with the singing stars? that metephore has been used countless times and was probably used because people at the time thought the stars were angels in the sky or something like that. not because people knew of radio waves.

and with the behemoth, it is mentioned only to be a herbevoir according to this list. what about the carnivoirs?

and with the air currents, solomon may have been able to describe the cycle of air but he didnt know what caused it.

and one final thing for "fact" 3, THE BIBLE WASNT AROUND 1500 B.C. only the old testament and that was told by word of mouth.

the real fact is this, the bible was written to give a message, not explain science. it was written for people to understand when all they understood was myths and legends. they had no understanding of any scientific knowledge. they didnt know what blood did or even that it consisted of plasma and cells. all they knew was, if you lost alot of blood you died.

sorry i thought you knew

Answer 3

Scientific facts? hardly. Atoms aren't invisible, mentioning that the earth is round doesn't mean its a sphere. Stars singing doesn't mean that the bible knew about the electromagnetic waves given off by stars as a pitch (really a wavelength and not so much a sound). I have yet to find enough scripture in the bible to support that bible knew about dinosaurs (some still deny the validity of dinosaurs). So much more I could write. Also, I like how the website quoted a random magazine from 1976 to prove that genesis is exactly how scientists describe the creation of the universe.

Answer 4

lol. There are no scientific facts in the bible, just things the religious have twisted so they resemble scientific facts.

FACTS are things like mathematics, biology, chemistry... they are not stories about people and things. THOSE are stories.

I can tell you a story about the ghost I saw in my house last night. I can give you the time and dates and the exact details of the visit right down to what the ghost was wearing and the look on the ghosts face. Does that make it fact? No, it makes it a story and until I can come up with PROOF in the form of verifiable evidence (pictures, sounds, energy readings, etc) its NOTHING MORE THAN A STORY bred from exhaustion.

A 2000 year old book written by sheepherders who still believed the earth was flat does NOT contain facts. It contains very questionable stories.

So how about you stop making things up huh?

Answer 5

Democritus developed the basis of the atomic theory in 5 B.C... Not very recent is it? All of the other "facts" have similar baseless reasoning...

The unchanging "facts" are what make the bible so unscientific... Tell me, before science figured out the answer to all of these "facts", what did people attribute the reasons to? It seems to me while the statements in the bible do not change, the interpretations of those facts do... And funnily enough that normally occurs right around the time science comes up with the answer...

The bible is very specific on 'what' it wants people to do, it is very, very weak on the 'why' and 'how'.

Answer 6

That was an amusing read. Hear the words of the bible about a free floating earth:
1 Chronicles 16:30: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.”

Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ...”

Psalm 96:10: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ...”

Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.”

Isaiah 45:18: “...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast...”

addtional
Those who claim Biblical support for a spherical earth typically ignore this forest of consistency and focus on one or two aberrant trees. Some take refuge in audacity. Henry Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research, cites one of the more explicitly flat-earth verses in the Old Testament Isaiah 40:22, the “grasshopper” verse quoted earlier as evidence for the sphericity of the earth. Quoting the King James version “he sitteth upon the circle of the earth” Morris ignores the context and the grasshoppers and claims “circle” should read “sphericity” or “roundness” [1956, 8]. This divide and conquer strategy is poor scholarship and worse logic.

Heroic efforts have been made by apologists to explain away the firmament, which encloses the celestial bodies, has waters above it, and is a masterpiece proving the Creator's craftsmanship. The late Harold W. Armstrong argued that it is empty Newtonian space, and that the “waters above” still surround the edges of the universe, though perhaps not in liquid form [1979, 26]. This simply ignores difficulties and invents evidence. Gerardus Bouw tried to identify the firmament as a mathematical plenum [1987]. In my view, it is a grave error to reinterpret ancient documents to force their authors to speak with modern voices. Gary Zukov [1979] and Fritjof Capra [1976], for instance, read modern physics into the teachings of eastern mysticism. I consider all such attempts equally suspect.

the material above is from:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm

Answer 7

As you can see by the other answers to this question, you're not only on shaky ground, but you don't have a pebble of validity to stand on. Sorry, but this is really an area that Christians should stay out of. The only thing they can fall back on is the bible, and each year that goes by, it fails more and more to be The Truth. I hope others have learned from what this question shows.

Answer 8

While there are many ideas in the bible that has scientific fact but it does not allude to an all powerful God. Do your research Christian and watch your idea of God diminish in thin air just like he was created by lessor men.

But I don't think the average religious based faith driven non thinker can handle the truth.

Answer 9

That's a good question, but I think you do yourself a disservice by making it so broad. There are way too many prophetic facts in scripture for reasonable discussion on a forum like this. And there are a number of scientific facts too.

I'd go for the fact that the prophet Isaiah referred to "the one dwelling above the circle of the earth" at a time when the common belief was that the earth was flat.

Answer 10

Nonexistent; and that's why I rejected the bible at the advanced age of eight years. The creation story agrees with the scientific data only by coincidence, and not much of that. The tales of people living to be 700+ years old were implausible in the extreme; we now know that it is impossible. And of course there is the tale of the flood, which is provably false by a half dozen independent bodies of evidence. As for prophecy, I ignore it; if you prophesy enough things, some of them are certain to happen. There are hundreds of errors in the bible, as well as scores of internal contradictions; so it cannot safely be used as a reference for any purpose.

Answer 11

That link is seriously stretching the limits of possible meanings for verses.

e.g.

Job 38:19 asks, "Where is the way where light dwells?" Modern man has only recently discovered that light (electromagnetic radiation) has a "way," traveling at 186,000 miles per second.

It also includes misinformation. Pythagoras (c. 570BC) suggested the earth was a sphere.