Is the Bible Scientifically Accurate? Part 4

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METEOROLOGY:
Existence of the Jet Stream
Your local weather man is the brunt of many jokes. It is difficult to predict anything in the future, let alone the weather. Yet, in order to give the five-day forecast, a lot of difficult science is required. Even with all of that, the weather man's predictions are not always accurate. This becomes increasingly more difficult to predict the farther you go beyond the following week because of the numerous variables involved. While the Bible does not predict the upcoming weather, it is interesting to note that it understood and accurately portrayed the weather cycle 2,700 years ahead of the scientific community.

The existence of the jet stream has really only been known and understood since World War II, during bombing runs over both Germany and Japan. To give you a sense of these high atmospheric winds, a flight from New York to Tokyo will typically take 14+ hours in a Boeing 747. The return trip will typically take little more than 11 hours. That is 14 hours going east to west vs. 11 hours going west to east.

"Blowing toward the south, Then turning toward the north, The wind continues swirling along; And on its circular courses the wind returns." Ecclesiastes 1:6

Weather (Hydrologic) Cycle
The concept of evaporation was not discovered until the 1700's, when Pierre Perrault and Edme Marriote demonstrated that oceanic evaporation was the source of rain clouds and river waters.

 "All the rivers flow into the sea, Yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, There they flow again." Ecclesiastes 1:7

The above verses were written by Solomon nearly 1000 years B.C. How remarkable is that? 3,000 years ago the Bible revealed what modern science only discovered 300 years ago.

ATMOSPHERICS/AERONAUTICS:
Modern science has understood air to have mass for a relatively short period of time in history. In 1643, an Italian physicist named Toricelli made the first barometer and proved the existence of atmospheric pressure. However, the Bible spoke of air having weight nearly 4,000 years earlier in the book of Job:

"For He looks to the ends of the earth, And sees everything under the heavens. When He imparted weight to the wind, And meted out the waters by measure." Job 28:24-25

LIGHT: PROPERTIES AND USES:
With the below verse, some scientists say that it evidences an understanding that light has properties whereas darkness is merely the absence of light. Light has a "way", as it were, in that it travels at 186,000 miles per second.

"Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place?" Job 38:19

"Can you send forth lightnings that they may go And say to you, 'Here we are'?" Job 38:35

With the above verse, it is said that the Bible is saying what scientists thought was a ludicrous statement: light can be sent and then manifest itself in speech. Did you know that radio waves move at the speed of light? This is why you can have instantaneous wireless communication with someone on the other side of the Earth. Science did not discover this until 1864 when "the British scientist James Clerk Maxwell suggested that electricity and light waves were two forms of the same thing." (Modern Century Illustrated Encyclopedia, Vol. 12) Of course, today, communications do travel at light speed, and make use of energy to do so.

To be continued...