Genesis 1:21 “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.” As a child, I was a big fan of the TV ...
Continue ReadingGenesis 6:15 “And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits..” According to the Bible, Noah’s Ark was 450 feet...
Continue ReadingGenesis 50:2 “ And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.” Most of us were amazed when we first learned that physicians in ancient Egypt did brain surgery. Even more amazing is th...
Continue ReadingJohn 5:46-47 “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?” There is a theory that Genesis and the other books of the Penteteuch were actually compiled lon...
Continue ReadingJohn 5:46-47 “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?” Numerous passages in the New Testament state that Genesis was written by Moses. But how could M...
Continue ReadingChronicles 1:1-4 “Adam, Sheth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. “ First Chronicles starts in a most unusual way by simply listing the generations of people from the time of Adam onwards. What c...
Continue ReadingExodus 27:20 “And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always”. While compiling a chemistry textbook on the subject of oil, I thought it would be instructive for...
Continue ReadingGenesis 7:11 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” Rumblings and small eruptions...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:9 “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.” In his 1858 book, La Création et sesmystèresdévoilés (The Creation and its Mysteries Unveiled), geologist...
Continue ReadingGenesis 11:7-8 “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.” How ...
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