Solomon, long ago wrote, "All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, there they go again" (Ecclesiastes 1:7).  The Mississippi River, when running at an average rate of flow, dumps approximately 6,052,500 gallons of water into the Gulf of Mexico--per second.  Where does all that water go?  And remember, this is just the water from one river! The answer, of course, lies in the hydrologic cycle, of which the Bible speaks.  Ecclesiastes 11:3a states that "if the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth."  Amos 9:6b reminds us that "he...called for the waters of the sea, and poured them out upon the face of the earth; the lord is his name."

The idea of a complete water cycle was not fully understood or accepted until the 16th and 17th centuries.  The first substantial evidence came from the experiments of Pierre Perrault and Edme Maroitte.  Astronomer Edmund Halley also contributed valuable data to the concept of a complete water cycle.  More than 2,000 years prior to their discoveries, however, the scriptures indicated a water cycle.  How?  Just a lucky guess?

Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) was once confined to bed during a lengthy illness.  His son, who had been asked to read for him from the Bible, turned to Psalm 8 and upon reading verse 8, drew his father's immediate attention.  The verse reads, "The birds of the heaven, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas."  It had never been noticed by Maury before.  Using this verse he decided to find the "paths of the seas."

Indeed, he found just that! He was the first (of whom we have a written record) to recognize that the seas were circulating systems with interaction between wind and water.  His book on physical oceanography is still considered a basic text for studies of that sort.  The book, Matthew Fontaine Maury: Pathfinder of the Seas, by C. S.  Lewis (published in 1927 by the U.S. Naval Institute), recounts the entire story.  Maury "took God at His Word" and found that Word to be fully accurate!

Job was asked by God (Job 38:16), "Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?"  The Hebrew word for "recesses" (or "trenches") refers to that which is "hidden, and known only by investigation."  What then were these "recesses of the deep" (the Hebrew for "deep" is the word for seas or oceans)?

Man, in previous centuries, thought of the seashore as nothing but a shallow, sandy extension from one continent to another.  Then, in 1873 a team of British scientists searching in the Pacific Ocean found a "recess" five and one-half miles deep.  Later, another team of scientists found in the Pacific Ocean a trench more than six miles deep!  How did Job know the recesses of the deep were there, when they were not discovered for centuries?

Moses writes, "...and the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them" (Genesis 2:1).  This is an interesting statement because Moses chose the Hebrew past definite tense for the verb "finished," indicating an action completed in the past, never again to occur.  That is exactly what the First Law of Thermodynamics says!  This law (often called the Law of the Conservation of Energy and/or Matter) states that neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed.  How did Moses know?

In three places the Bible affirms that the earth is wearing out.  Isaiah 51:6, Psalms 102:26, and Hebrews 1:11 all say that "...the earth will wear out like a garment."

This is precisely what the Second Law of Thermodynamics says:  everything is running down, wearing out; energy is becoming less and less available for use; entropy (a measure of randomness, disorderliness, lack of structure) is increasing!

That, of course, means the universe eventually will "wear out."  The Bible writers knew it, and stated it clearly.  We did not discover it until a few years back.  How did the Bible writers know?

According to the Old Testament, circumcision was to be performed on the eighth day of a newborn male's life (Genesis 17:12).  Why the eighth day?  

In 1935, Professor H. Dam proposed the name "Vitamin K" for the factor in foods that helped prevent hemorrhaging in baby chicks. We now know that Vitamin K is responsible for the production of prothrombin by the liver.  If Vitamin K is deficient, there will be a prothrombin deficiency and hemorrhaging may occur, since both Vitamin K and prothrombin are necessary for proper blood clotting.  Oddly enough, it is only on the fifth through the seventh days of the newborn male's life that Vitamin K begins to be produced (usually produced by bacteria in the intestinal tract).  It is only on the eighth day that the percentage of prothrombin climbs above 100%!

The only day in the entire life of the newborn that the blood-clotting element prothrombin is above 100% is day eight.  Therefore, the best day for circumcision is the eighth day!  Did Moses have access to modern-day scientific knowledge, or did God tell him to write this?

Genesis 3:15 says, "...between her seed and thy seed," revealing that a female (as well as a male) possesses the seed of life.  Such, however, was not believed in Moses' day, or even until recently.  Ancient writers believed that only the male possesses the seed of life, and that the female was nothing more than a "glorified incubator."  One writer even suggested that you could deposit the male semen in the warm mud, and the result would be the same as depositing it in the human female!  How was Genesis so accurate?

Thousands of years before the "Law of Biogenesis," Moses declared that things reproduce "after their kind" (Genesis 1:11-12, 21, 24).  You do not get bananas from corn stalks, buffaloes from zebras, or dogs from cats.  Moses was right on target, but how did he know these things, since the science of genetics was not instituted until the year 1900?

Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15:39, states that there are four fleshes--those of men, beasts, birds, and fishes.  Today, every evolutionist acknowledges this truth. These fleshes are different indeed in their biochemical makeup.  But how did Paul, an itinerant preacher, know this?

Paul also said that it is God who gives all life (Acts 17:25).  For centuries men tried to prove spontaneous generation true; they attempted to "create" life through naturalistic process, yet always without success.  Men may alter the state that life is, but they cannot create it.  But, how did Paul know this almost 2,000 years ago?  One of those lucky guesses (ref.1, vol.1, les.#9, p.33)?

The evidence of quickly-frozen Mammoths in Siberia is in favor of the Flood.

The Grand Canyon is evidence of the Flood:  water cut through material that was not yet consolidated after it had been deposited by the Flood.

Ernst Mayr, a leading taxonomist, lists only 17,600 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.  How would you get all those animals in the Ark?

Taking sheep as the average size for the animals, you can fit 240 sheep into a two-level boxcar.

The Ark was a huge box with enough space for 522 boxcars (the measurements are in Genesis 6:15).

This means all the animals would fit, leaving plenty of space for food and people. So, maybe the Flood and Noah's Ark are not so far-fetched after all?

Civilization began in Mesopotamia:  the Fertile Crescent has been proved to be the cradle of civilization.

Long lives of patriarchs before the flood:  Archaeology has revealed men living great lengths of time.

The Sumerians lived in ancient Mesopotamia (sometimes called "the cradle of civilization") from 4000 to 3000 B.C. , and seem to have been the oldest people to make use of writing.  These people made contributions to many areas which still influence us today in Astronomy, Mathematics, Geometry, Fine Arts, and Architecture.  Their day was divided into two 12-hour segments, and their architecture may have been responsible for constructing the famous "Tower of Babel" (ref.4, pp.9-14), from which all languages seem to have originated (ref.6, p.47).  Cuneiform from excavations of the capital city of Mari has produced records of familiar Biblical names such as Peleg, Serug, Nahor, and Terah, as well as the city of Haran where Abraham lived, and the city of "Ur of Chaldees" where he lived in his youth (ref.5, pp.26-28).  From these excavations archaeologists have recovered a record called The Sumerian King List, which tells of kings reigning for hundreds of years. The Bible is pretty conservative compared to these accounts, and suggests that before the Flood there was a water canopy around the earth which created a greenhouse effect, removing the harmful rays of the sun (see Genesis 2:6-14).

The Great Flood:  Archaeologists have found many accounts of a Great Flood which are amazingly parallel to the Bible (Genesis 6-8).  The most striking similarities are:  divine judgment; a hero who constructs a boat; even the sending out of birds.  Mere coincidence?

Today, many believe that Noah's actual Ark is still in existence on Mt. Ararat in Turkey.  Some claim to have seen it.  Due to its being under snow most of the time, and being located close to the Russian border, it has been extremely difficult to prove this conclusively.

Stories like the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9); Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18-19); and Jericho (Joshua 6) are no longer regarded as myths.  They have been proved by archaeology.

How did the writers have this scientific foreknowledge?

Simple: God had them put it there, through divine revelation!

If all the physical things the Bible says can be proved to be true, then what about the spiritual things?  Are they not true also?