Exodus : Science (12)

  1. "When she could not longer hide him [Moses], she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink." 2:3

    The birth story of Moses is suspiciously similar to that of the birth of Sargon, an Akkadian monarch from the 3rd millennium BCE. (BBC: The tale of the basket)

  2. "The LORD said unto him, Who ... maketh the dumb, or deaf ... or the blind? have not I the LORD?" 4:11

    Why are some people born with disabilities? Because God deliberately makes them that way.

  3. "The hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast." 9:24

    God killed Egyptians and their livestock by smashing them with huge hailstones mixed with fire.

  4. "God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines." 13:17

    God led the Israelites through the land of the Philistines, hundreds of years before the Philistines were established in Canaan.

  5. "If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD ... I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians." 15:26

    If you do what God says, he won't send his diseases on you (like he did to the Egyptians). But otherwise....

  6. "It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat." 16:14-15

    "The manna referred to in the Bible, in Exodus 16:14, seems to have been the dried excrement of Trabutina mannipara, a scale insect that feeds on tamarisk trees." (Benjamin B. Normark, The Sex Lives of Scales, Natural History, Sept. 2004. )

  7. "And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited." 16:35

    It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than a few weeks.

  8. "In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them." 20:11

    Believers often say that the "days" of creation should be taken allegorically, but this verse is quite clear. God created the universe in six 24 hour days.

  9. Serve God and you'll never get sick, be hungry, thirsty, or barren. 23:25-26

  10. A group of Hebrew slaves carried 1000 kg of gold, 3500 kg of silver, and 2450 kg of brass with them as they traveled through the wilderness. (And this was after they used all their gold to make a goldent calf.) This amount of gold and silver would be worth more than $40 million US dollars today.38:24-25, 29

  11. The Israelite population went from 70 (or 75) to several million in a few hundred years. 1:5,7, 12:37, 38:26

  12. Seventy people (Genesis 46:27, Exodus 1:5) became several million in less than forty years during the Exodus. 38:26

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