> 1. Only in recent years has science discovered that everything we see
> is composed of invisible atoms. Here, Scripture tells us that the
> "things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
>
> 2. Medical science has only recently discovered that blood-clotting in
> a newborn reaches its peak on the eighth day, then drops. The Bible
> consistently says that a baby must be circumcised on the eighth day.
>
> 3. At a time when it was believed that the earth sat on a large animal
> or a giant (1500 B.C.), the Bible spoke of the earth’s free float in
> space: "He...hangs the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7).
>
> 4. The prophet Isaiah also tells us that the earth is round: "It is he
> that sits upon the circle of the earth" (Isaiah 40:22). This is not a
> reference to a flat disk, as some skeptic maintain, but to a sphere.
> Secular man discovered this 2,400 years later. At a time when science
> believed that the earth was flat, is was the Scriptures that inspired
> Christopher Columbus to sail around the world (see Proverbs 3:6
> footnote).
>
> 5. God told Job in 1500 B.C.: "Can you send lightnings, that they may
> go, and say to you, Here we are?" (Job 38:35). The Bible here is
> making what appears to be a scientifically ludicrous statement—that
> light can be sent, and then manifest itself in speech. But did you
> know that radio waves travel at the speed of light? This is why you
> can have instantaneous wireless communication with someone on the
> other side of the earth. Science didn’t discover this until 1864 when
> "British scientist James Clerk Maxwell suggested that electricity and
> light waves were two forms of the same thing" (Modern Century
> Illustrated Encyclopedia).
>
> 6. 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.
>
> 7. Science has discovered that stars emit radio waves, which are
> received on earth as a high pitch. God mentioned this in Job 38:7:
> "When the morning stars sang together..."
>
> 8. "Most cosmologists (scientists who study the structures and
> evolution of the universe) agree that the Genesis account of creation,
> in imagining an initial void, may be uncannily close to the truth"
> (Time, Dec. 1976).
>
> 9. Solomon described a "cycle" of air currents two thousand years
> before scientists "discovered" them. "The wind goes toward the south,
> and turns about unto the north; it whirls about continually, and the
> wind returns again according to his circuits" (Ecclesiastes 1:6).
>
> 10. Science expresses the universe in five terms: time, space, matter,
> power, and motion. Genesis 1:1,2 revealed such truths to the Hebrews
> in 1450 B.C.: "In the beginning [time] God created [power] the heaven
> [space] and the earth [matter] . . . And the Spirit of God moved
> [motion] upon the face of the waters." The first thing God tells man
> is that He controls of all aspects of the universe.
>
> 11. The great biological truth concerning the importance of blood in
> our body’s mechanism has been fully comprehended only in recent years.
> Up until 120 years ago, sick people were "bled," and many died because
> of the practice. If you lose your blood, you lose your life. Yet
> Leviticus 17:11, written 3,000 years ago, declared that blood is the
> source of life: "For the life of the flesh is in the blood."
>
> 12. All things were made by Him (see John 1:3), including dinosaurs.
> Why then did the dinosaur disappear? The answer may be in Job
> 40:15–24. In this passage, God speaks about a great creature called
> "behemoth." Some commentators think this was a hippopotamus. However,
> the hippo’s tail isn’t like a large tree, but a small twig. Following
> are the characteristics of this huge animal: It was the largest of all
> the creatures God made; was plant-eating (herbivorous); had its
> strength in its hips and a tail like a large tree. It had very strong
> bones, lived among the trees, drank massive amounts of water, and was
> not disturbed by a raging river. He appears impervious to attack
> because his nose could pierce through snares, but Scripture says, "He
> that made him can make his sword to approach unto him." In other
> words, God caused this, the largest of all the creatures He had made,
> to become extinct.
>
> 13. Encyclopedia Britannica documents that in 1845, a young doctor in
> Vienna named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis 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 the
> bodies of patients who died, then, without washing their hands, 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.
> Look at the specific instructions God gave His people for when they
> encounter disease: "And when he that has an issue is cleansed of his
> issue; then he shall number to himself even days for his cleansing,
> and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall
> be clean" (Leviticus 15:13). Until recent years, doctors washed their
> hands in a bowl of water, leaving invisible germs on their hands.
> However, the Bible says specifically to wash hands under "running
> water."
>
> 14. Luke 17:34–36 says the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will occur
> while some are asleep at night and others are working at daytime
> activities in the field. This is a clear indication of a revolving
> earth, with day and night at the same time.
>
> 15. "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 leprosyin Leviticus 13
> may be regarded as the first model of sanitary legislation’ (A History
> of Medicine)." Grant R. Jeffery, The Signature of God With all these
> truths revealed in Scripture,how could a thinking person deny that the
> Bible is supernatural in origin? There is no other book in any of the
> world’s religions (Vedas, Bhagavad-Gita, Koran, Book of Mormon, etc.)
> that contains scientific truth. In fact, they contain statements that
> are clearly unscientific. Hank Hanegraaff said, "Faith in Christ is
> not some blind leap into a dark chasm, but a faith based on
> established evidence." (11:3 continued)
>
> Always remember: Christ loves you, and so do I! Each and every one of you!