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What are some examples of scientific insights relating to geology?

The natural processes of the earth are taken for granted today. We understand so much of the actions of the water we drink, and the air we breathe. But only a short time ago, we were very ignorant of these patterns. Some of the geological topics the Bible addresses are:

The Hydrologic Cycle
Water comes down to earth as rain, runs down hills into rivers, back into the oceans, where it evaporates, eventually to form clouds and fall to earth again. We understand this concept and take it for granted. This concept was not properly identified in the scientific community until the 1700's. The Bible very clearly explained this as follows:

"He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams;
the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind."
Job 36:27,28

Currents in the Oceans
Matthew Fontaine Maury was a man who recognized the accuracy of scripture. Maury reasoned that the "pathways in the seas" in the book of Isaiah had to be correct.

"This is what the LORD says-- he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters.." Isaiah 43:16

Maury proved this theory of ocean currents and spent his life studying and mapping ocean currents. He is considered the "father of oceanography".

There are other examples of geology in explaining wind patterns (Ecclesiastes 1:6), and even nuclear explosion and the melting of the elements (2Peter 3:10).

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