Reason 6 addressed: Scientific foreknowledge in the Bible — prophecy is superior to scientific insight as apologetic evidence
The skeptic argues an inspired Bible would contain scientific knowledge humans couldn't have had (e.g., quantum mechanics, germ theory). Mike largely treats this as a restatement of Reason 5.
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.
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