The Bible Does Make Scientific Predictions

Outline:I. IntroductionII. The Validity of the BibleIII. The Scientific Fallacies of the BibleVI. SourcesI. IntroductionThis is an interesting topic. I personally believe that the Bible does not make scientific predictions. In fact, it has many fallacies that humans believed for centuries, such as the Earth being flat, and the Earth being in the center of the universe. Additionally, I believe that some of the Biblical stories, such as Noah's Ark, are scientifically impossible.I will try to include as many credible sources, using arguments supported by science.II. The Validity of the BibleThe Bible is a secondary source, a source created by people long after an event occured. The earliest holy scriptures of the Bible were made 20 years after Jesus's death. Additionally, the Bible was made during a time where people had a very small understanding of the world around them, and explained odd occurances with magic and religion. This is similar to the Greeks and how they explained things like the changing of seasons, the rising and fall of the sun, etc, with their Gods and religious stories, which we can assume to be false.Additionally, as I have said in the introduction and will continue to discuss in greater detail in my next part of my argument, "The Scientific Fallacies of the Bible," the Bible has included things that modern science can confidently disprove.III. The Scientific Fallacies of the BibleThe Bible has claimed many things, which have been disproven by modern science. The Bible even has inconsistencies which contradicts itself. The Bible claims that the Earth is flat and does not rotate, as declared in Chronicles 16:30: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable," Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm," and Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken."The Bible also possesses incosistences such as: "GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created." and "GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created;" "GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time," and "GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later;" "GE 2:17 Adam was to die the very day that he ate the forbidden fruit," and "GE 5:5 Adam lived 930 years," (S2).There are many things in the Bible that are downright impossible, such as the virgin birth of Jesus, being as there needs to be a male and a female to conceive a child for the reason of the creation of a fertile egg and embryonic development, alchemy and transmogrification such as a stick turning into a snake (S3), etc. I would also like to discuss the story of Noahs Ark: a tale of which a family and Noah built a large ark capable of housing two of every creature on Earth to survive a flood that God created (not to mention the killing of millions in the process). It has been estimated that the ark would be "around 510 feet long and 51 feet tall." It would be physically impossible for one man and his family to build such an enormous ship capable of sailing for around 150 days (S4). There have been some predictions that Noah and his three sons could potentially build an ark in a mere 81 years (S5). However, during those times, the lifespan was relatively short, and it is highly unlikely that Noah and his sons would live that long. Additionally, it would be impossible for Noah to travel across the world to take and preserve two of each animal, including the penguins in the Arctic, the emus in Australia, the wild boars in Europe, the Canadian Geese in North America, and the llamas in South America. Also, if Noah's family were the only survivors after the flood, there would be noticable mutations and physical disabilities apparent because of inbreeding, even to this day, and it would also be apparent in the animals on the ark since there are only two of each.The prominent scientist, Bill Nye, has also slammed the story of Noah's Ark, reinforcing his ideas with a thorough scientific approach: "My scientific colleagues go to places like Greenland, the Arctic, they go to Antarctica and they drill into the ice with hollow drill bits; it's not that extraordinary, and many have probably done it yourselves, like with hole saws to put locks in doors, for example. And we pull out long cylinders of ice, long ice rods. And these are made of snow and ice. It's called snow ice. Snow ice forms over the winter, and snow flakes fall, and are crushed down by subsequent layers. Theyâ€™re crushed together, and are entrapping little bubbles. The bubbles must needs be [from] ancient atmospheres; there's nobody running around with a hypodermic needle squirting ancient atmosphere into the bubbles. And we find certain of the cylinders to have 680,000 layers. 680,000 snow winter/summer cycles. How could it be that just 4000 years ago, all of this ice formed? We can just run some numbers. Let's see we have 680,000 layers of snow ice, and 4000 years since the great flood, that means we need 170 winter/summer cycles every year. For the last 4000 years. Wouldn't someone have noticed that? Wouldn't someone have notice there's been winter/summer, winter/summer for 170 times in one year? If we go to California, we find the enormous stands of Bristlecone pines. Some of them are over 6000 years old. 6800 years old. There is a famous tree in Sweden is 9550 years old. How could these trees be there if there was an enormous flood just 4000 years ago?" (S6). To put it in more simplistic terms: if there was a flood 4,000 years ago, then how come there's no evidence that can be reinforced with science such as geology? How come there are trees that are over 4,000 years old that have still managed to survive to this day? If there was a flood during their life, they would drown and die from too much water. IV. SourcesS1) http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu...S2) https://infidels.org...S3) https://www.lhup.edu...S4) https://answersingenesis.org...S5) https://ncse.com...S6) http://www.youngearth.org...