{"id":4234,"date":"2006-03-05T09:04:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:47:37","slug":"notes-on-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/notes-on-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>General<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Psalm 19:1<\/li>\n<li>Romans 1:20<\/li>\n<li>Hebrews 3:4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Anatomy<\/h2>\n<h3>Blood Necessary for Life<\/h3>\nLeviticus 17:11<br>\n<i>Discovered in the 19th century<\/i>\n<h3>Blood is the Same in All Humans<\/h3>\nActs 17:25-26<br>\n<i>All races have similar proportions fo the four basic blood types. Discovered in 1900 by Karl Landsteiner.<\/i>\n<h3>Flesh Differs Among Species<\/h3>\n1 Corinthians 15:39<br>\n<i>Discovered in 1939<\/i>\n<h3>Reproductive Cells Possessed by Females<\/h3>\nGenesis 3:15<br>\n<i>Discovered in 1880<\/i>\n<h3>Skin Made of Dust<\/h3>\nGenesis 3:19<br>\n<i>90% of household dust consists of dead skin. Discovered in the early 20th century.<\/i>\n<h2>Astronomy<\/h2>\n<h3>Earth is Spherical<\/h3>\nIsaiah 40:22<br>\nProverbs 8:27<br>\n<i>From 1500 to 1700 various inventions confirm the earth&#8217;s roundness. After 1950 views from space verified the fact.<\/i>\n<h3>Earth is Suspended Without Support<\/h3>\nJob 26:7<br>\n<i>Discovered in 1697 by Sir Isaac Newton<\/i>\n<h3>Expanding Universe<\/h3>\nJob 9:8<br>\nPsalm 104:2\n<h3>Radio Astronomy<\/h3>\nJob 38:7<br>\n<i>Discovered in 1920<\/i>\n<h3>Single Face of the Moon Visible<\/h3>\n<p>Job 26:9<\/p>\n<h3>Space is Infinite<\/h3>\nJob 11:7-8<br>\nJob 22:12\n<h3>Stars are Innumerable<\/h3>\nGenesis 15:5<br>\nJeremiah 33:22<br>\nHebrews 11:12<br>\n<i>Measurable Only by God<br>\n<\/i>Psalm 147:4<br>\nIsaiah 40:26<br>\n<i>Discovered in 1940<\/i>\n<h2>Geology<\/h2>\n<h3>Earth has been Totally Submersed in Water<\/h3>\nGenesis 1:2<br>\nGenesis 1:6<br>\nGenesis 1:9<br>\nGenesis 7:19-24<br>\nPsalm 104:6-9<br>\n<i>Discovered in 1885 by Seuss<\/i>\n<h2>Meteorology<\/h2>\n<h3>Hydrologic Cycle (Rain -&gt; Stream -&gt;Ocean)<\/h3>\nJob 28:24-26<br>\nJob 36:27-28<br>\nEcclesiastes 1:7<br>\n<i>Discovered in 1841<\/i>\n<h3>Property of Clouds<\/h3>\nJob 26:8<br>\nJob 37:16\n<h2>Nature<\/h2>\n<h3>Aerodynamics<\/h3>\n<p>Job 28:25<\/p>\n<h3>Seaworthy Ship Design Ratio 30:5:3<\/h3>\nGenesis 6<br>\n<i>Discovered in 1860<\/i>\n<h3>Spontaneous Generation Disproved<\/h3>\nGenesis 1:21<br>\n<i>Discovered in 1698 by Redi. Discovered in 1862 by Pasteur<\/i>.\n<h3>Three Divisions: Plant, Animal, and Mineral<\/h3>\nGenesis 1:1-31<br>\n<i>Classified in 1740 by Linnaeus<\/i>\n<h2>Nutrition<\/h2>\n<h3>Animal Blood is Not Suitable for Consumption<\/h3>\nLeviticus 17:10-16<br>\n<i>Discovered in the 17th century<\/i>\n<h3>Blood and Fat are Not Suitable for Consumption<\/h3>\nLeviticus 3:17<br>\n<i>Discovered in the 1930s<\/i>\n<h3>Certain Animals are Not Suitable for Consumption<\/h3>\nLeviticus 11:1-19<br>\nLeviticus 11:29-30<br>\n<i>Discovered in the 16th century<\/i>\n<h2>Oceanography<\/h2>\n<h3>Oceanic Canyons<\/h3>\n2 Samuel 22:16<br>\nJob 38:16<br>\n<i>Between 1840 and 1971 man completed the mapping of the ocean floor, showing many canyons of the deep penetrating to depths of over 42,000 feet.<\/i>\n<h3>Oceanic Currents<\/h3>\nPsalm 8:8<br>\n<i>Discovered 1854<\/i>\n<h3>Oceanic Springs<\/h3>\nGenesis 7:11<br>\nGenesis 8:2<br>\nJob 38:16<br>\n<i>Discovered between 1930 and 1945.<\/i>\n<h3>Waters Swarm with Living Creatures<\/h3>\nGenesis 1:20 (see the Hebrew text)<br>\n<i>Discovery of &#8220;little animals&#8221; in a microscope in 1676 by Leeuwenhoek<\/i>\n<h2>Sanitation<\/h2>\n<p>Exodus 15:26<\/p>\n<h3>Circumcision on the eighth day<\/h3>\nGenesis 17:10-12<br>\n<i>Procedure is safe by the eighth day due to the proper concentration of vitamin K and prothrombin.<\/i>\n<h3>Early Diagnosis of Leprosy<\/h3>\nLeviticus 13<br>\n<i>Discovered in the 17th century.<\/i>\n<h3>Transmission of Disease<\/h3>\nLeviticus 15:2-4<br>\nNumbers 19:17-22<br>\n<i>Isolation of body substances and universal precautions discovered in the 1980s.<\/i>\n<h3>Disposal of Human Waste<\/h3>\nDeuteronomy 23:13<br>\n<i>Microbial breakdown of buried waste products understood by the late 19th century.<\/i>\n<h3>Handwashing<\/h3>\nLeviticus 15:5<br>\n<i>Semmelweiss reduced the death rate in Vienna hospitals from 1 in 6 to 1 in 84 in the 1850s.<\/i>\n<h3>Quarantine for Disease Control<\/h3>\nLeviticus 13<br>\nNumbers 19:20<br>\n<i>Plague was controled in Europe using biblical principles in 1350.<\/i>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Psalm 19:1 Romans 1:20 Hebrews 3:4 Anatomy Blood Necessary for Life Leviticus 17:11 Discovered in the 19th century Blood is the Same in All Humans Acts 17:25-26 All races have similar proportions fo the four basic blood types. Discovered in 1900 by Karl Landsteiner. Flesh Differs Among Species 1 Corinthians 15:39 Discovered in 1939&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201],"tags":[709],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-evidence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26579,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-bible-and-dinosaurs\/","url_meta":{"origin":4234,"position":0},"title":"The Bible and Dinosaurs","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Don Martin The word dinosaur, as such, is not found in the Bible. 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