(October 18, 2017 at 2:55 pm)speedyj1992 Wrote: First, I would encourage you to read the water cycle verses - Ecclesiastes 1:7, Isaiah 55:10, Amos 9:6, Jeremiah 10:13, and Job 36:27-28. Regarding your insect and pi references, what verses are you referring to? I'm also unclear about your last comment in the parentheses, but I'd gladly respond with some clarification.
Water cycle verses don't appear to be anything special -- just observations by ordinary mortals.
- Ecclesiastes doesn't say how the water returns to the source, although a clever mortal could just look at rain falling on a river upstream and go "Aha!"
- Isaiah: Any farmer knows that rain soaks into the ground and waters the crops.
- Amos doesn't mention how "the Lord" manages to get all the salt out of the sea water before it comes raining down somewhere else.
- Jeremiah makes it sound like the clouds come rolling in fully formed, possibly from over the edge of a flat earth, rather than forming in the sky.
- Job is obvious to anyone who's ever boiled a pot of water and had something like a pot lid pass through the steam.
For the insects: Leviticus 11:21.
For pi: 1 Kings 7:23.
Regarding my parenthetical comment, pi=3 started with the Babylonians but by 1600 BCE they had refined the value to 3.125. The Egyptians recorded a value of 3.1605 at about the same time. I understand that Kings was written during the Babylonian exile, circa 560 BCE, so the author should have at least written 31/10 instead of 30/10. Shoddy work.
