Science

Claims about the age of the earth, the shape of the world and the origin of living things.

Did the sun stand still? Joshua 10 and the motion of the earth Joshua 10:12-14; Psalm 93:1; Ecclesiastes 1:5
Joshua commands the sun to stop in the sky. The text assumes a moving sun, and the church once used passages like this against Copernicus and Galileo.
Does the Bible say pi equals three? 1 Kings 7:23 1 Kings 7:23-26; 2 Chronicles 4:2-5
A round bronze basin is described as ten cubits across and thirty cubits around, which would make pi exactly three.
Does the hare chew the cud, and is a bat a bird? Leviticus 11 Leviticus 11:6; Leviticus 11:13-19; Deuteronomy 14:7
The food laws list the hare as a cud-chewer and the bat among the birds. Modern zoology classifies neither that way.
How can there be light and plants before the sun? Genesis 1:3-19 Genesis 1:3-5; Genesis 1:11-13; Genesis 1:14-19
In Genesis 1 light, day and night and plants all appear before the sun, moon and stars are made on the fourth day.
How old is the earth? Genesis genealogies and the scientific record Genesis 1:1-2:3; Genesis 5:3-5; Genesis 11:10-26; Exodus 20:11
Adding the ages in Genesis gives an earth only a few thousand years old. Radiometric dating gives about 4.5 billion years. Christians have answered in several ways.
Was there a worldwide flood? Genesis 6–9 and the geological record Genesis 6:5-8; Genesis 7:11-24; Genesis 8:1-5
Genesis describes a flood that covered the highest mountains. Geologists find no sign of a single recent global flood, and Mesopotamian flood stories predate the biblical one.
What is the firmament? Ancient cosmology in Genesis 1 Genesis 1:6-8; Genesis 7:11; Psalm 148:4
Genesis describes a solid dome holding up waters above the sky. That is how many ancient peoples pictured the heavens, and it is not how the universe is.