There are three scientific statements in the Bible that I generally use to prove to people that they should trust the Bible's statements and wait for science to catch up:
1) The earth is round. The Bible has said this (in Isaiah 40:22) more than 2000 years before Columbus went against the popular beliefs of the time (foisted by the false church of his day) and agreed with the Bible in his search for a path to India.
2) The earth hangs upon nothing, floating in space. God had revealed this to Job (26:7) loooooong before scientists realized this only within the last few hundred years (Job is the oldest book in the Bible). Interestingly, everyone else (who also thought that the earth was flat) thought that the earth sat on the back of an elephant, or a turtle, or some guy named Atlas.
3) The life of the flesh is in the blood. This seemingly religious statement is buried among ceremonial laws in Leviticus 17:11, but it is a powerful scientific truth. Doctors of old believed that sickness was caused by bad blood; therefore, they used "blood-letting" to remove the bad blood, hoping that the patient would have good blood remaining. They killed a lot of people this way, including America's first President, George Washington.
In all of these cases, those who held to the Biblical teaching were ridiculed and mocked and persecuted. But they were right. And time and science vindicated them. Let's remember that when talking to our atheist friends. (And, yes, I did say friends.)
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