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From the perspective of a Christian, what scientific reasons can modern people infer that back up the biblical account?AnswerIt is exciting times for Bible believing Christians as science helps confirm the truth of God's Word. Below are a few fields of science and just a couple of many points where science helps confirm Scripture, and shows the majesty of our Creator,.FORENSIC SCIENCEIn the courtroom, a verdict is determined on the weight of the evidence. Evidence can be exhibits, verbal testimony and written documents. We can apply the same tests to the Bible.* Exhibits... Exhibits to support the Biblical account include evidence from archaeology, geology, genetics, astronomy and many other sciences. I will mention some of those sciences below, that helps to show the Bible is trustworthy, and accurate.* Verbal testimony... Obviously, we do not have anyone alive today that was an eyewitness to the events in the Bible. We do however have written accounts of people who were eyewitnesses, or interviewed those who were eyewitnesses. We have some accounts from external sources (Greek, Roman and Jewish) to the Bible verifying the gospel accounts. And we have internal sources since several of the New Testament authors lived and wrote their accounts within one generation of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.Luke1:1-3 "Many people have set out to write accounts about the events that have been fulfilled among us. They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples. Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write an accurate account for you"(See more regarding Luke under archaeology).* Written accounts... "The New Testament has been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work of literature, with over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts catalogued, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_manuscript#New_Testament_manuscriptsAlso, regarding bibliographical tests.. https://www.clayjones.net/2013/10/the-bibliographical-test-updated-2/ARCHAEOLOGY* "Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods and descriptions in the Bible, be they from the Old Testament (Tanakh) or from the New Testament, as well as the history and cosmogony of the Judeo-Christian religions. The principal location of interest is what is known in the relevant religions as the Holy Land..." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_archaeology* "... you’ll discover how archaeology brings the ancient world of the Bible to life, right before your eyes.... In2004, during construction work to repair a large water pipe south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, on the ridge known as the City of David, archaeologists excavated part of a monumental pool where Jesus performed the miracle of restoring sight to a blind man in the Gospel of John." https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/free-ebooks/ten-top-biblical-archaeology-discoveries/* Dr Luke (Gospel of Luke) was perhaps the world's greatest historian. The research Luke did is reflected in the accuracy of his account. The Gospel of Luke is just one of many historically accurate Books in God's Word.The Gospel of Luke besides numerous mentions of things with historical and archaeological significance also mentions; 32 countries, 54 cities and 9 islands. Because of the numerous mention to countries and cities, Sir William Ramsaythought that this book would be the easiest one to disprove. He along with his archaeological team set out to Asia Minor to prove the Bible wrong. But... a funny thing happened. "Ramsay became so overwhelmed with the evidence he eventually converted to Christianity"Ramsey said "I began with a mind unfavorable to it...but more recently I found myself brought into contact with the Book of Acts as an authority for the topography, antiquities, and society of Asia Minor. It was gradually borne upon me that in various details the narrative showed marvelous truth"Luke is a historian of the first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy...this author should be placed along with the very greatest historians."http://www.bibleevidences.com/archeology.htmInteresting how so many people say the Bible is filled with errors. Yet, for many who are willing to study it with an open mind, such as Sir William Ramsay, it is inerrant. (I had written this about Dr. Luke and posted it previously).BIOLOGY* In the past evolutionists argued that non-functionality of things such as so called junk DNA and the appendix were evidence against the biblical creator. The logical conclusion from that argument is that functionality would be evidence for the biblical creator. science has found function in many items of our body that Evolution has previously dismissed as "junk" and "useless".* In the past evolutionists has argued that poor designed was evidence against the biblical creator. For example, Richard Dawkins argued that our eyes are evidence of a poor engineer, "Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light, with their wires leading backwards towards the brain. He would laugh at any suggestion that the photocells might point away, from the light, with their wires departing on the side nearest the light. Yet this is exactly what happens in all vertebrate retinas. "...Dawkins is not laughing now because science has proved him wrong. The inverted retina uses technology something like fiber optics. Some researchers and ophthalmologist have referred to it with terms such as "superior" and "optimal”.GENETICS* Genetics provides evidence of a perfect, and recent creation that has been corrupted... Exactly as we should expect according to God's Word, The Bible.Secular geneticists can not understand how humanity has survived our high mutation rate, if the millions of years they believe in are true. (Ex. Article in 'Jorrnal of Theoretical Biology'..."Contamination of the genome by very slightly deleterious mutations: why have we not died 100 times over?"... or, one more... In 1997, J.F.Crow in PNAS 'The High Spontaneous Mutation Rate' " It seems clear that for the past few centuries harmful mutations have been accumulating...the decrease in viability from mutation accumulation is some 1-2% per generation......I do regard mutation accumulation as a problem. It is something like the population bomb but with a much longer fuse" Secular geneticists such as Kondrashov, have come up with a number of hypothetical rescue device solutions trying to make the data fit their beliefs. (Synergistic epistasis, the multiplicative model, the additive model, truncation, antagonistic epistasis). The data is consistent with the Biblical creation account.* Modern science continues to reveal the sophisticated complex living 'cities' within every single cell, and the information system in our DNA. Every information system which transmits information requiring action always has an intelligent designer. Like Bill Gates says, "DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created." Scientists are still discovering the amazing ways in which our DNA is read, and the self-repair mechanisms.ASTRONOMY* Comets cannot last billions of years like stellar evolutionists believe. Comets lose material with every pass of the sun. Evolutionists have imagined a hypothetical 'Oort' cloud... A cloud of comets in waiting, that occasionally spits out a new comet. The short life of comets is consistent with the creation account and a young Earth.* The Bible compares stars being as innumerable as the sands of the sea. (Jeremiah 33:22 and others) Skeptics in the past laughed at that notion thinking there was only a little more than 1,000 Stars. We know know that there are billions of galaxies but each contain hundreds of billions of stars. There are even more stars than sands of the sea.* 1st Corinthians 15:41 every Star is unique. Science confirms scripture..... There are trillions of stars and every Star is unique. are composed of different elements, different sizes and they 'sing' different tunes.CYTOLOGY (Cell biology)Every cell is like a small intelligently designed manufacturing city. The more science discovers...the more reason we have to worship our Creator. The link below gives a small idea of the inner workings of each cell. * Our bodies contain about 100,000,000,000,000 cells* Some cells are so small it would take 6,000 cells placed end to end to make 1 inch (apprx 2.5 CM)* And yet if all our cells were placed end to end, they would encircle the earth more than 200 timesEach tiny cell has 3 major parts:1. MEMBRANE- Ernest Borek has observed: “The membrane recognizes with its uncanny molecular memory the hundreds of compounds swimming around it and permits or denies passage according to the cell’s requirements”2. CYTOPLASM- There are over 20 different chemical reactions occurring at any one time, with each cell containing five major components for: (1) communication; (2) waste disposal; (3) nutrition; (4) repair; and (5) reproduction. Within the cytoplasm organelles as the mitochondria which can number more than 1000 per cell.There is an amazing busy factory within each cell. For example:A. Endoplasmic reticulum is a transport system that takes things to where they are needed.B. Ribosomes are protein producing factories(within each cell)C. Golgi bodies are warehouses which store the proteins until neededD. Lysozomes are the 'gabage trucks' They dispose of the garbage.3. NUCLEUS is the control center. Within the nucleus is the genetic machinery of the cell (chromosomes and genes containing DNA).*Within each DNA there are about 3 billion base pairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_zD3NxSsD8PALEONTOLOGY* Soft dinosaurs tissue found in fossilized is evidence of a very recent creation. C14 dating on dinosaur tissue providing dates of about 30,000 years Is consistent with the biblical account of a young creation. ( The global flood would have drastically altered C12 / C14 ratios so a realistic interpretation of the C14 data would be closer to 4000 years... More details if anyone is interested)* The study of fossils shows sudden appearance and sophisticated complex organisms that seem to baffle many evolutionists. For example, there is zero evidence that sophisticated vision systems evolved. A sea creature said to be 515 million years by evolutionary dating methods, has a vision system far more efficient and complex than most creatures that exist today. Note the almost comical words of the paleontologist admitting there is no evidence these eyes evolved..."This sea creature's eyes belong to an earlier period of the 'Cambrian explosion' in evolutionary terms, but as there is no evidence of eyes in the pre-Cambrian period, it suggests complex eyes developed extraordinarily quickly. As Dr Paterson sums it up, "In the geological blink of an eye". http://www.earthtimes.org/nature/eye-fossil-proves-ancient-sea-predator-anomalocaris/1694/#1BYQB7VCvzRATPzJ.99GEOLOGY* Both Argon and Helium Diffusion Rates Indicate a Young Earth...about 6,000years. https://www.icr.org/article/both-argon-helium-diffusion-rates-indicate/* The Grand Canyon "Thus the evidence within the Coconino Sandstone does not support the evolutionary geologists interpretation of slow and gradual deposition of sand in a desert environment with dunes being climbed by wandering four-footed vertebrates. On the contrary, a careful examination of the evidence, backed up by experiments and observations of processes operating today indicates catastrophic deposition of the sand by deep fast-moving water in a matter of days, totally consistent with conditions envisaged during the Flood." https://creation.com/startling-evidence-for-noahs-flood * Geologist Steve Austin says the reasons he believed the earth was old... 1. Laminated sedimentary rocks 2. Large canyons with small rivers 3. Petrified forests 4. Coal beds deposited in peat swamps 5. Radioisotope dating BUT... Austin now believes earth is young because 1. Laminated sedimentary rocks 2. Large canyons with small rivers 3. Petrified forests 4. Coal beds deposited in peat swamps 5. Radioisotope dating Same data..... Better interpretation!PHYSICS* Physics shows us that our universe had a beginning. Physics and logic show us anything which has a beginning, has a cause. IOW.... Something had to exist eternally which caused everything. The fine tuning of the universe, and many other evidences point to an omnipotent and omniscient eternally existing creator.* "The explanation of the planetary magnetic fields is in surprising agreement with the creationist theory and there is no evolutionary counterpart to it. Similarly, the predictions of rapid geomagnetic reversals have been verified by analysis of lava flows in Steen’s Mountain in Oregon, which indicate geomagnetic polarity reversals occurring in a matter of a few weeks, much to the bewilderment and surprise of evolutionary scientists" Keith Wanser, PhD physics http://professor.https://creation.com/keith-h-wanser-physics-in-six-daysOCEANOGRAPHY* Matthew Maury (astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author and geologist and Bible believing Christian) read about paths in the sea (Psalm 8:8) in the Bible. He began searching for these paths....found them, and the field of oceanography science was started. Here is an interesting video from Nasa about ocean currents / paths in the sea.http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010700/a010710/G2011-028_Aquarius_Ocean_Circulation.movhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fontaine_MauryThe above is just a very few of thousands of evidences pointing to the Creator God of Scripture. The universe declares the majesty of God. What a privileged time in history we live... science reveals how awesome our creator is as we discover the world around us. Science can help us worship Him.Henry Schaefer, professor of chemistry and director of the center of computational quantum chemistry U. of Georgia wrote" The significance and joy in my Science come in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself "so that's how God did it.""

Does understanding what makes a rainbow scientifically take from its amazing presence of 'God'?Understanding how things work as believers should lead us to worship our Creator. It does not matter if it involves studying rainbows….. or, the amazing sophistication of the cellular world….. or, the ‘mind boggling’ discoveries in our universe; we have an awesome God.Dr. "Fritz" Schaefer, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia said "The significance and joy in my science comes in the occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it!' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan." –U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 23, 1991.It is exciting times for Bible believing Christians as science helps confirm the truth of God's Word. Below are a few fields of science and just a couple of many points where science helps confirm Scripture, and shows the majesty of our Creator,.FORENSIC SCIENCEIn the courtroom, a verdict is determined on the weight of the evidence. Evidence can be exhibits, verbal testimony and written documents. We can apply the same tests to the Bible.* Exhibits... Exhibits to support the biblical account include evidence from archaeology, geology, genetics, astronomy and many other sciences. I will mention some of those sciences below, that helped show the Bible is trustworthy and accurate.* Verbal testimony... Obviously, we do not have anyone alive today that was an eyewitness to the events in the Bible. We do however have written accounts of people who were eyewitnesses, or interviewed those who were eyewitnesses. We have some accounts from sources external sources (Greek, Roman and Jewish) to the Bible verifying the gospel accounts. And we have internal sources since several of the New Testament authors lived and wrote their accounts within one generation of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.Luke1:1-3 "Many people have set out to write accounts about the events that have been fulfilled among us. They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples. Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write an accurate account for you"(See more regarding Luke under archaeology).* Written accounts... "The New Testament has been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work of literature, with over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts catalogued, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian." Biblical manuscript - WikipediaAlso, regarding bibliographical tests.. The Bibliographical Test UpdatedARCHAEOLOGY* "Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods and descriptions in the Bible, be they from the Old Testament (Tanakh) or from the New Testament, as well as the history and cosmogony of the Judeo-Christian religions. The principal location of interest is what is known in the relevant religions as the Holy Land..." Biblical archaeology - Wikipedia* "... you’ll discover how archaeology brings the ancient world of the Bible to life, right before your eyes.... In2004, during construction work to repair a large water pipe south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, on the ridge known as the City of David, archaeologists excavated part of a monumental pool where Jesus performed the miracle of restoring sight to a blind man in the Gospel of John." Ten Top Biblical Archaeology Discoveries - Biblical Archaeology Society* Dr Luke (Gospel of Luke) was perhaps the world's greatest historian. The research Luke did is reflected in the accuracy of his account. The Gospel of Luke is just one of many historically accurate Books in God's Word.The Gospel of Luke besides numerous mentions of things with historical and archaeological significance also mentions; 32 countries, 54 cities and 9 islands. Because of the numerous mention to countries and cities, Sir William Ramsaythought that this book would be the easiest one to disprove. He along with his archaeological team set out to Asia Minor to prove the Bible wrong. But... a funny thing happened. "Ramsay became so overwhelmed with the evidence he eventually converted to Christianity"Ramsey said "I began with a mind unfavorable to it...but more recently I found myself brought into contact with the Book of Acts as an authority for the topography, antiquities, and society of Asia Minor. It was gradually borne upon me that in various details the narrative showed marvelous truth"Luke is a historian of the first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy...this author should be placed along with the very greatest historians."http://www.bibleevidences.com/archeology.htmInteresting how so many people say the Bible is filled with errors. Yet for many who are willing to study it with an open mind, such as Sir William Ramsay, it is inerrant. (I had written this about Dr. Luke and posted it previously).BIOLOGY* In the past evolutionists argued that non-functionality of things such as so called junk DNA and the appendix were evidence against the biblical creator. The logical conclusion from that argument is that functionality would be evidence for the biblical creator. science has found function in many items of our body that Evolution has previously dismissed as "junk" and "useless".* In the past evolutionists has argued that poor designed was evidence against the biblical creator. For example, Richard Dawkins argued that our eyes are evidence of a poor engineer, "Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light, with their wires leading backwards towards the brain. He would laugh at any suggestion that the photocells might point away, from the light, with their wires departing on the side nearest the light. Yet this is exactly what happens in all vertebrate retinas. "...Dawkins is not laughing now because science has proved him wrong. The inverted retina uses of technology something like fiber optics. Some researchers and ophthalmologist have referred to it with terms such as "superior" and "optimal.GENETICS* Genetics provides evidence of a perfect, and recent creation that has been corrupted... Exactly as we should expect according to God's Word, The Bible.Secular geneticists can not understand how humanity has survived our high mutation rate, if the millions of years they believe in our true. (Ex. Article in 'Jorrnal of Theoretical Biology'..."Contamination of the genome by very slightly deleterious mutations: why have we not died 100 times over?"... or, One more... In 1997, J.F.Crow in PNAS 'The High Spontaneous Mutation Rate' " It seems clear that for the past few centuries harmful mutations have been accumulating...the decrease in viability from mutation accumulation is some 1-2% per generation......I do regard mutation accumulation as a problem. It is something like the population bomb but with a much longer fuse" Secular geneticists such as Kondrashov, have come up with a number of hypothetical rescue device solutions trying to make the data fit their beliefs. (Synergistic epistasis, the multiplicative model, the additive model, truncation, antagonistic epistasis). The data is consistent with the biblical creation account.* Modern science continues to reveal the sophisticated complex living 'cities' within every single cell, and the information system in our DNA. Every information system which transmits information requiring action always has an intelligent designer. Like Bill Gates says, "DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created." Scientists are still discovering the amazing ways in which our DNA is read, and the self-repair mechanisms.ASTRONOMY* Comets cannot last billions of years like stellar evolutionists believe. Comets lose material with every pass of the sun. Evolutionists imagine a hypothetical 'Oort' cloud... A cloud of comets in waiting, that occasionally spits out a new comet. The short life of comets is consistent with the creation account and a young Earth.* The Bible compares stars being as innumerable as the Sands of the sea. (Jeremiah 33:22 and others) Skeptics in the past laughed at that notion thinking there was only a little more than 1,000 Stars. We know know that there are billions of galaxies but each contain hundreds of billions of stars. There are even more stars than sands of the sea.* 1st Corinthians 15:41 every Star is unique. Science confirm scripture..... There are trillions of stars and every Star is unique. are composed of different elements, different sizes and they 'sing' different tunes.CYTOLOGY (Cell biology)Every cell is like a small intelligently designed manufacturing city. The more science discovers...the more reason we have to worship our Creator. The link below gives a small idea of the inner workings of each cell.* Our bodies contain about 100,000,000,000,000 cells* Some cells are so small it would take 6,000 cells placed end to end to make 1 inch (apprx 2.5 CM)* And yet if all our cells were placed end to end, they would encircle the earth more than 200 timesEach tiny cell has 3 major parts:1. MEMBRANE- Ernest Borek has observed: “The membrane recognizes with its uncanny molecular memory the hundreds of compounds swimming around it and permits or denies passage according to the cell’s requirements”2. CYTOPLASM- There are over 20 different chemical reactions occurring at any one time, with each cell containing five major components for: (1) communication; (2) waste disposal; (3) nutrition; (4) repair; and (5) reproduction. Within the cytoplasm organelles as the mitochondria which can number more than 1000 per cell.There is an amazing busy factory within each cell. For example:A. Endoplasmic reticulum is a transport system that takes things to where they are needed.B. Ribosomes are protein producing factories(within each cell)C. Golgi bodies are warehouses which store the proteins until neededD. Lysozomes are the 'gabage trucks' They dispose of the garbage.3. NUCLEUS is the control center. Within the nucleus is the genetic machinery of the cell (chromosomes and genes containing DNA).*Within each DNA there are about 3 billion base pairsPALEONTOLOGY* Soft dinosaurs tissue found in fossilized is evidence of a very recent creation. C14 dating on dinosaur tissue providing dates of about 30,000 years Is consistent with the biblical account of a young creation. ( The global flood would have drastically altered C12 / C14 ratios so I realistic interpretation of the sea 14 data would be closer to 4000 years... More details if anyone is interested)* The study of fossils shows sudden appearance and sophisticated complex organisms that seem to baffle many evolutionists. For example, there is zero evidence that sophisticated vision systems evolved. A sea creature said to be 515 million years by evolutionary dating methods, has a vision system far more efficient and complex than most creatures that exist today. Note the almost comical words of the paleontologist admitting there is no evidence these eyes evolved..."sea creature's eyes belong to an earlier period of the 'Cambrian explosion' in evolutionary terms, but as there is no evidence of eyes in the pre-Cambrian period, it suggests complex eyes developed extraordinarily quickly. As Dr Paterson sums it up, "In the geological blink of an eye". Eye fossil proves ancient sea predator had strong visionGEOLOGY* Both Argon and Helium Diffusion Rates Indicate a Young Earth...about 6,000years. Both Argon and Helium Diffusion Rates Indicate a Young Earth* The Grand Canyon "Thus the evidence within the Coconino Sandstone does not support the evolutionary geologists interpretation of slow and gradual deposition of sand in a desert environment with dunes being climbed by wandering four-footed vertebrates. On the contrary, a careful examination of the evidence, backed up by experiments and observations of processes operating today indicates catastrophic deposition of the sand by deep fast-moving water in a matter of days, totally consistent with conditions envisaged during the Flood." Startling evidence for Noahs Flood* Geologist Steve Austin says the reasons he believed the earth was old...1. Laminated sedimentary rocks2. Large canyons with small rivers3. Petrified forests4. Coal beds deposited in peat swamps5. Radioisotope datingBUT... Austin now believes earth is young because1. Laminated sedimentary rocks2. Large canyons with small rivers3. Petrified forests4. Coal beds deposited in peat swamps5. Radioisotope datingSame data..... Better interpretation!PHYSICS* Physics shows us that our universe had a beginning. Physics and logic show us anything which has a beginning, has a cause. IOW.... Something had to exist eternally which caused everything. The fine tuning of the universe, and many other evidences point to an omnipotent and omniscient eternally existing creator.* "The explanation of the planetary magnetic fields is in surprising agreement with the creationist theory and there is no evolutionary counterpart to it. Similarly, the predictions of rapid geomagnetic reversals have been verified by analysis of lava flows in Steen’s Mountain in Oregon, which indicate geomagnetic polarity reversals occurring in a matter of a few weeks, much to the bewilderment and surprise of evolutionary scientists" Keith Wanser, PhD physics http://professor.https://creation.com/keith-h-wanser-physics-in-six-daysOCEANOGRAPHY* Matthew Maury (astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author and geologist and Bible believing Christian) read about paths in the sea (Psalm 8:8) in the Bible. He began searching for these paths....found them, and the field of oceanography science was started.Here is an interesting video from Nasa about ocean currents / paths in the sea.http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010700/a010710/G2011-028_Aquarius_Ocean_Circulation.movMatthew Fontaine Maury - WikipediaThe above is just a very few of thousands of evidences pointing to the Creator God of Scripture. The universe declares the majesty of God. What a privileged time in history we live... science reveals how awesome our creator is as we discover the world around us. Science can help us worship Him.