Biblical account

The exact location of Sodom and Gomorrah is difficult to establish. The Biblical account of their destruction reads Then die Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven (Gen. 19, 24). In his unsympathetic interpretation of Job s suffering, Bildad set forth the punishment of the wicked, and added that... 

In 1661 Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist, which demolished what he regarded as either fallacious reasoning or incompetent experiment or both. It was above all an attack on theories of the elements devised by those seduced more by theory than by experimental evidence. We have already encountered the principal element theories that Boyle attacked. Aristotelians had their four elements, earth, air, fire, and water. Paracelsians had three, the tria prima of Mercury, Sulfur, and Salt, which were not the same as the common mercury, sulfur, and salt of the laboratory, apothecary s shop, or even (in the case of table salt) the kitchen. Van Helmont had either one or two, depending on how you interpreted him water, or, taking the biblical account literally, water and air,... 

These conflicts reverberate into the present. In 1990 Scientific American asked a science writer named Forrest Mims to write several columns for the Amateur Scientist feature of their magazine. Amateur Scientist treats topics such as measuring the length of lightning bolts, building portable solar observatories, and making a home seismometer to record earth movements—fun projects for those whose hobby is science. The understanding was that if the editors and readers liked the columns, Mims would be hired as a permanent writer. The trial columns all went very well, but when Mims came to New York for a final interview he was asked if he believed in evolution. Mims replied, well, no, he believed in the biblical account of creation. 

Medical practitioners and historians have traced the origins of clinical trials to biblical accounts of dietary comparisons under Nebuchadnezzar II, James... 

Professor W. Reinman of Rutgers University has stated that probably the first published account of what we now know as ion exchange was the biblical account of Moses at Marah, who "found a suitable tree which when he had cast it into the water the waters were made sweet." The explanation is that the oxidized cellulose exchanged with the salty tasting ions in the water. 

If the era of King Solomon was relatively impoverished and culturally desolate, we must ask if the Biblical accounts are fictional... 

It is important to understand that contrary to claims by evolutionists, belief in the biblical account of Creation is not diametrically opposed to true science. The proponents of evolution often try to cast believers in Creation as scientifically ignorant and unenlightened. Don t let yourself be put in that position. 

Nevertheless, ever since the theory of evolution became popular, there have been attempts to harmonize the biblical account of Creation with evolution— what is known as"theistic evolution."ln short, theistic evolution holds that God used the evolutionary process to bring about creation. The two most common theories of theistic evolution are the Gap Theory and the Day-Age Theory. 

And that s not aU. Those who have made a personal direct connection with the Designer through His Son, Jesus Christ, can come to know the Author of the biblical account of Creation.Through His loving... 

According to biblical accounts, the ancient Israelites created a hair gel by mixing ashes and oil. Persil was the name of the first detergent made in 1907 by Germany s Henkel. 

One of the main problems we have with extracting history from the biblical text is that many personages and events are attested in no other source. This applies to the seminal period of the Israehte monarchy s beginnings, with the reigns of David and Solomon. Not only are there no other written sources, but the archaeology is currently disputed. Without other reliable sources we are thrown back on trying to evaluate the biblical account, with all its problematic features. I propose here to use the story of the medieval Spanish hero known as El Cid to illumine the historical process involved in appraising the biblical account. 

The story of David is primarily known from i and 2 Samuel, plus 1 Kings 1. Much work has been spent on analyzing the text, but there is probably more disagreement now about how the text relates to history than there was a generation ago. Scholars as different as Martin Noth and John Bright seemed to accept—more or less—the biblical account of the United Monarchy. For about two decades now a number of scholars have rejected (or at least questioned) the existence of a imited monarchy and the historicity of the reign of David. 

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