Reason 6 addressed: Scientific foreknowledge in the Bible — prophecy is superior to scientific insight as apologetic evidence

Mike identifies Reason 6 as essentially identical to Reason 5 — both reduce to: the Bible should contain knowledge beyond human capacity. He raises several objections to the proposed scientific examples: (a) Scientific language in an ancient text would have been interpreted allegorically or supernaturally by ancient readers — 'invisible creatures in the water' would be understood as spirits, not bacteria. (b) When scientific facts are later 'discovered' in the Bible, skeptics dismiss them as either coincidence or reverse-engineering (scientists named things 'particles' and 'waves' because they were Christians, etc.). (c) Scientific descriptions are culturally bounded and change over time; prophecy is better because it is event-specific and historically verifiable. (d) Prophecy benefits all eras of readers; scientific insights privilege the modern reader at the expense of everyone else. That said, Mike acknowledges the Bible does contain scientific statements: Genesis 1 describes creation ex nihilo (God spoke the universe into existence from nothing). Hebrews 11:3 affirms this in Greek: 'what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.' This contrasts with the dominant early 20th-century scientific consensus of an eternal universe. Hubble's redshift discovery and related work confirmed the universe had a beginning, aligning with the biblical claim. The Bible also contains proto-hygienic laws: dietary restrictions against animals prone to disease (pork, shellfish), ceremonial washing instructions that constitute a recipe for soap, and the requirement to defecate outside the camp — all consistent with modern sanitation principles.