List 20 scientific Facts that are in the Bible in Columns “Scientific”, Bible Location”, “Bible Verse”
Here is a list of some scientific facts or concepts mentioned in the Bible, along with their locations and verses. Please note that the Bible is not a scientific textbook, and its primary purpose is to convey spiritual truths. However, some passages can be seen as aligning with certain scientific understandings.
Scientific Concept | Bible Location | Bible Verse |
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Earth’s shape | Isaiah 40:22 | “He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers…” |
Hydrologic cycle | Ecclesiastes 1:7 | “All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from…” |
Ocean currents | Psalm 8:8 | “…the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.” |
Atmospheric circulation | Ecclesiastes 1:6 | “The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.” |
The expanding universe | Isaiah 42:5 | “This is what God the Lord says—the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out…” |
Importance of hygiene | Leviticus 15:13 | “When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing…” |
Quarantine for disease | Leviticus 13:46 | “As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp.” |
Gravity | Job 26:7 | “He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.” |
Laws of physics | Job 38:33 | “Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?” |
Fountains in the deep | Genesis 7:11 | “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life…all the springs of the great deep burst forth…” |
Life is in the blood | Leviticus 17:11 | “For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your lives…” |
Agricultural practices | Leviticus 25:4 | “But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord…” |
Stars are innumerable | Genesis 15:5 | “He took him outside and said, ‘Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.'” |
Earth hangs in space | Job 26:7 | “He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.” |
Wash hands under running water | Leviticus 15:13 | “He shall bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his regular garments…” |
Importance of sanitation | Deuteronomy 23:12-13 | “Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself…with a shovel…” |
Dust is the origin of life | Genesis 2:7 | “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life…” |
Air has weight | Job 28:25 | “When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters…” |
Scientific Concept | Bible Location | Bible Verse |
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Light can be split | Job 38:24 | “By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?” |
Dinosaurs mentioned | Job 40:15-24 | “Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox…” |
Meteorological processes | Job 36:27-29 | “He draws up the drops of water…which the clouds pour down; they shower on mankind abundantly…” |
Rain’s effect on soil | Isaiah 55:10 | “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven…and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed…” |
Water cycle in nature | Job 36:27-28 | “He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams…” |
Importance of rest | Exodus 20:8-11 | “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work…” |
Blood circulation | Leviticus 17:11 | “For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your lives…” |
Earth’s crust composition | Jeremiah 33:22 | “As the hosts of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured…” |
Constellations | Job 38:31-32 | “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt?” |
Concept of entropy | Psalm 102:25-26 | “In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth…They will perish, but you remain…” |
Rotation of the Earth | Job 38:12-14 | “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place?” |
Microorganisms | Leviticus 11:29-31 | “These are unclean to you among the creatures that move about on the ground…” |
Human anatomy | Psalm 139:13-16 | “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb…” |
Human genetics | Genesis 3:20 | “Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.” |
Time’s relativity | 2 Peter 3:8 | “With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” |
Laws of motion | Job 38:35 | “Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?” |
Animal instincts | Proverbs 30:24-28 | “Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise…” |
Oceanography | Psalm 104:5-9 | “You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains…” |
Concept of wind | John 3:8 | “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sou |