Biblical scientific foreknowledge

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'''Biblical scientific foreknowledge''' is the idea that the [[Bible]] can accurately predict [[Science| scientific]] knowledge that was supposedly unknown before the (multiple) times of when biblical texts were written down. The intent behind this is to try and prove that an [[omniscient|all-knowing]] [[God|entity]] penned/inspired the book with knowledge that mere human scribes at the time could not understand. In effect, this is an effort to wrap biblical statements — about how the world works — around modern science, reinterpreting the biblical language in such a way that would make [[fortune telling|fortune tellers]] jealous.

{{SacredForeknowledgeProblems|Bible|{{cquote|Like any high-school algebra student knows, one must "show their work" — getting the conclusion right is less than half the battle. In the long run, the creationist assertion that the Bible is an almanac of scientific facts — albeit without explanation – proves the Bible's limited application as a factual guide to today's world.|||Ames<ref>[http://acandidworld.com/2008/06/01/scientific-foreknowledge-from-the-bible/ Ames. "SCIENTIFIC 'FOREKNOWLEDGE' FROM THE BIBLE." Submitted to a Candid World. 01 June 2008. Web. 05 July 2014.]</ref>}}}}{{SacredForeknowledgeCriteria|Bible|Biblical|}}

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Natural
 Artificial selection described in the Bible?==
The Bible contains what some hold is a description of [[artificial selection]] (also known as selective breeding). Specifically, in the book [[Genesis]], [[Jacob]] seems to affect the mating habits of [[goat]]s that he is tending ({{bible|Genesis|30|31-39}}) as part of a scheme to take ownership of his father-in-law Laban's herd. The Bible story maintains that as the goats multiply, a larger and larger percentage of the offspring become dark colored, spotted, and speckled, and as a consequence, the property of Jacob.

However, the Bible states that Jacob watered his flocks in front of dark colored sticks, and ''"And since they bred when they came to drink, the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted..."'' ({{bible|Genesis|30|37-39}}). As having goats drink in front of things of different colors would have no effect whatsoever on the colors of their coats, this shows that Jacob did not use artificial selection, but rather [[magical thinking]]: making the Bible 0 for 0 on scientific foreknowledge on this point.

==Rotation of the Earth==
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Several fundamentalists claim that the Bible predicts the rotation of the Earth. They're incorrect. In fact, the Bible supports an unmoving Earth with [[Geocentrism|the Sun revolving around it]].

==Compilations==
There are several fundamentalist collections of supposed Biblical scientific foreknowledge:
*''[[Science Confirms the Bible]]''
*''[[Modern Science in the Bible]]''
*''[[Scientific Facts in the Bible: 100 Reasons to Believe the Bible is Supernatural in Origin]]''
*[[Eternal Productions: 101 Scientific Facts and Foreknowledge|''101 Scientific Facts and Foreknowledge'']]
*All books by [[Jonathan Cahn]]
*[[Gaps between science and the Bible]]

==See also==
*[[Qur'anic scientific foreknowledge]]
*[[Scientific errors in the Bible]]
*[[Pseudoscience]]
*[[Nostradamus]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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