Okay, in reply to Don Sevendy's challange I CAN explain all the legit science's you mentioned. But I can't imagine a teenager's choice of music as scientific.
That's just plain cynical.
Keep the issues one at a time. It's not like I have nothing better to do then sit on a computer and reply to stupid questions for those who do not want a real anwser, or are too closed minded to consider the possibilities.
And please understand, this is going to take an enormus amount of time, even going one at a time. It's quite possible that we never get past the first few on the list. But one point I want to clearify first.
I never made the claim nor has anyone with serious Biblical knowledge that I know of ever said that the tilt of Earth's axles was related to the universal flood.
They are seperate unrelated events.
I have and still maintain that Earth as we know it today has always had the very same tilt at least back to Genisis 1:10 when God made dry land appear on Earth.
Before that, I can not say, because I honestly don't know, but neither do any of you know for sure.
Now onward.
Relativity, I need you to be more specific of what you are looking for in relativity, and please keep in mind I do not have a college degree which enables me to understand the mathamatics and deeper aspects involved. I have no doubt that science can be found in relativity, but my knowledge of that subject is limited, and so will be my anwser.
Quantium mechanics or rather quantium physics as I know it.
Luke 4:5
And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
2 Cor. 12:1
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth
such an one caught up to the third heaven.3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Eph. 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Rev 1:1
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Don asked for one verse, here are four references. I'll not explain them now, but I'm sure I'll be asked to. But for now, I'm just giving the references to literally meet the chalenge.
Continental drift In itself is not addressed in the Bible. However it is related to, and part of a much larger issue.
Gen 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
This one will take many pages alone to explain. There is a man made translation error in verse 2. The word 'was' is not in the Hebrew Bible, from which what we have today origionated from.
This is because the verb 'to be' is not in the accaint Hebrew language.
The correct verb is 'to become'. I'll give the verse again with only that change.
Gen 1:2
And the earth became without form, and void; and darkness came to be upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
This makes all the difference of how the rest of the chapter is read, and percieved.
The way it is printed implies that God made heaven and Earth from nothing, because it was without form and void. In that light the error of percieption is that the rest of the chapter is parenthintical of how God went about creating everything in the beginning.
But in proper translation, and context we learn that God made heaven and Earth in the beginning.
But something of catastrofical nature happened (not the flood) which caused heaven and Earth to become without form and void.
Verse 3 begins the story of how God
remade the heavens and Earth.
Not how it origionally was made.
I can not tell you what all existed before God said, "Let there be light," although I do know some of it which I'll expoud on another time.
Nor can I tell you how much time elapsed between the first creation and the catastrofy, or how long the catastrofy took, or how much time elapsed before God said, "Let there be light."
It could have been minutes, or it could have been 14 billion years. No one knows for sure.
If you want big bangs, cave men, dinosaurs, ice ages, contental drifts, and mass extinctions, you can have it all without dispute, so long as it was before God spoke light into being. None of that counterdicts the Bible, only what some people think they understand from the Bible.
As I said, this one is a very big one by itself, but moving on.
Genetics This one can become nearly as big, but like quantium physics, I'll just give scripture, and explain when I'm asked.
Gen. 1:11
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen. 1:
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen. 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth [u]after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
I don't know how my underlining, ittilics, and bold lettering is going to look in this posting. But I'm pointing out here everything after it's kind, which is just about the simpleist diffination of genitics you can get. Again, these are the foundation of sciences, recorded Bibilically, long before man discovered these sciences.
The sun-centered solar system
Gen 1:4b
and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
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And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:
Again this explains in terms that people of the times could understand.
There is nothing here about Earth being center of the universe, and everything revolving around it. That came much later propounded by men expressing their own personal beliefs.
The Bible properly places Earth IN the solar system with it's primary source of energy being light from the Sun. Although it does not specifficly name the Sun, nor does it name anything else, little doubt can remain of exactly what is UNDER the firmament Heaven.
The large-scale structure of the universe
Gen 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth became without form, and void; and darkness came to be upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen. 1:6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Read and reread this section very carefully and note the context of time in relation to events. Especially what are the waters, and what is the firmament.
Gen. 1:
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
You want to talk about large scale structure of the universe, here it is, and boy, is it! Even the most advid of those who call themselves astronamers can not understand the enormenity of the waters and the firmament.
Most people think it is the land and seas, but not so. Those were made AFTER the firament.
To make it very simple
everything within the firmament is the universe we see and understand. But there is much more yet.
The firmament is but a bubble within a much greater abyss of water. And what is beyond that? More then any of us can comprehand.
Here I've handed on a plate not one, but five different sciences which origionated from the Bible, thousands of years before our post dark ages science minded, supposely, educated men began to form theories of who we are, and what is out there. I can go on, but I'm getting tired, it's becoming very late, and my wife has already gone to bed and called for me twice. So I'll end here for now.