Episode 80: Ray Comfort's "Top Ten Scientific Facts In The Bible"

Here's an oldie but not so goodie from Ray Comfort and his merry gang…5 or so years ago, Living Waters put out a video titled "Ten of the Top Scientific Facts in the Bible".

Now, when I was a Creationist, I both evangelised using these and heard sermons being preached about these "facts" - and in case you were never a Creationist, the mentality behind this list is that the Bible contains nuggets of information that could only be known by people who were in tune with the Creator OF the universe because the Bible is obviously divinely inspred. Solid argument, right?

Now, my impression with all of these is that Ray has read a Bible verse, tied it somewhat tenuously to something we already knew thriugh our study of the natural sciences, and then attempts to claim "ah ha! The Bible says [X]! Look how awesome it is!", when in all reality, this is the theological equivalent of 2+2=potato.

But is my impression correct? Well, let me lay out my reasoning as I respond to Ray Comfort's points and see if these really are "10 of the top scientific facts in the Bible".

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2sMJMXDiH4

International Journal Of Korean History paper: https://ijkh.khistory.org/upload/pdf/ijkh-23-2-39.pdf

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