40 Scientific Mistakes in the Bible..

hristian believers the world over claim the Bible to be the inerrant word of an all-wise Creator, even when its pages stray into the realm of science. But how do the Bible's many claims stack up against modern scientific knowledge?

A. Cosmology

(1) - 23:54 - The universe was not made in 6 days (Genesis 1:1-31; Exodus 20:8-11)
(2) - 28:54 - Stars do burn out, fail or go “missing” (Isaiah 40:26)
(3) - 30:53 - Stars could never fall to the earth (Daniel 8:10, Matthew 24:29, Revelation 6:13)
(4) - 32:41 - Stars don’t determine the outcome of battles or orbit earth (Judges 5:20)
(5) - 33:52 - Jehovah doesn’t direct the constellations (Job 38:31-33)
(6) - 34:42 - Earth was not made before the sun and stars (Genesis 1:14-19)
(7) - 35:46 - The moon does not emit light (Genesis 1:14-19, Isaiah 13:10; 30:26; 60:19, Jeremiah 31:35, Ezekiel 32:7-8, Matthew 24:29)
(8) - 36:21 - The sun is not a mere light that can be paused or reversed (Joshua 10:13, 14, 2 Kings 20:11, Amos 8:9, Habakkuk 3:11)
(9) - 38:06 - The heavens do not have “foundations” or “pillars” (2 Samuel 22:8, Job 26:11)

B. Geology

(10) - 40:36 - Earth and its geological features are in motion (1 Chronicles 16:30; Psalm 65:6; 93:1; 96:10; 104:8, Proverbs 8:25)
(11) - 43:10 - Earth is not disc shaped (Isaiah 40:22, compare Isaiah 22:18)
(12) - 46:37 - Earth does not have “boundaries” or “ends” (Job 38:13, Psalm 74:17, Isaiah 5:26)
(13) - 47:12 - The earth does not have “four corners” (Isaiah 11:12, Ezekiel 7:2, Revelation 7:1)
(14) - 47:26 - Earth is not “long” or flat “like clay under a seal” (Job 11:9; 38:5, 14)
(15) - 50:16 - There is no hypothetical vantage point for viewing the whole earth (Daniel 4:10, 11; Matthew 4:8)
(16) - 51:39 - The earth has no cornerstone, pillars, supports or foundations (1 Sam 2:8, 2 Sam 22:16, Job 9:6; 38:4-6, Psalm 75:3; 82:5, Isaiah 24:18; 48:13, Jeremiah 31:37, Micah 6:2, Zechariah 12:1)
(17) - 52:05 - The sea has no permanently fixed “boundaries” (Job 38:8-11, Jeremiah 5:22)
(18) - 53:58 - There are no “gates of death” (Job 38:17)
(19) - 54:45 - There’s no scientific evidence to support a global flood (Genesis 6:9-8:19)

C. Meteorology

(20) - 56:44 - There was never any firmament or canopy above the earth (Genesis 1:6-8; 8:2)
(21) - 57:54 - The sky is not solid (Job 37:18)
(22) - 59:08 - God doesn’t draw up water (Job 36:27, 28)
(23) - 1:01:17 - God doesn’t direct the weather (Job 38:25-29, 35-37)
(24) - 1:02:29 - Snow and hail isn’t “stored” (Job 38:22, 23)
(25) - 1:02:51 - Rainbows did not begin in 2369 BCE (Genesis 9:13-17)

D. Biology

(26) - 1:04:14 - The first man wasn’t made 6,000 years ago out of dust (Genesis 1:27: 2:7; 3:19)
(27) - 1:04:41 - The first woman wasn’t made from one of man’s ribs (Genesis 2:18-22)
(28) - 1:06:47 - The origin of humans doesn’t predate rain and vegetation (Genesis 2:5-7)
(29) - 1:09:10 - There were no angel-human hybrid giants (Genesis 6:4)
(30) - 1:10:14 - God didn’t bring all animal life to one man for naming (Genesis 2:18-20)
(31) - 1:10:57 - Flying creatures did not precede land animals (Genesis 1:21-24)
(32) - 1:15:53 - Life evolved through evolution by natural selection (Genesis 1:20-25)
(33) - 1:18:51 - Animals aren’t in “subjection” to humans (Genesis 1:26-27)
(34) - 1:20:54 - Carnivores did not originate as herbivores (Genesis 1:30)
(35) - 1:22:14 - Not all animals are terrified of humans (Genesis 9:2)
(36) - 1:24:26 - Snails don’t melt as they move along (Psalm 58:8)
(37) - 1:25:45 - There’s no such thing as a flying, fiery snake (Isaiah 30:6)
(38) - 1:27:15 - A human can’t survive 3 days in the digestive system of a fish (Jonah 1:17)

E. Linguistics

(39) - 1:31:57 - Human languages didn’t originate at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:5-9)

F. Mathematics

(40) - 1:33:01 - The value of pi is not 3, it’s approx. 3.14 (1 Kings 7:23-26; 2 Chronicles 4:2-5)

Last Edited by HeartSutra on 03/23/2023 04:26 AM