While scientific accuracy does not prove the divine inspiration of a book, it does however aid it in standing apart from other books that fail to do so.
Most if not all of the other twenty-six religious writings contain false scientific claims, such as in the Qu’ran where it says that Alexander the great actually travelled West to the location where the Sun actually dips into the Earth (Surah 18:85) and that the stars in the sky are actually missiles used for ‘pelting’ satans (Surah 67:5).
The Bible however actually makes numerous true scientific claims, long before their modern day discoveries. Take the following for example:
Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.Psalms 19:6 says that the Earth is on a circuit through space. People originally thought that the Sun was stationary, so they thought the Bible was inaccurate. But it has been shown that the Sun itself is on a circuit around the Milky Way galaxy, and even that is traveling throughout the universe.
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;Isaiah 40:22 talks about the circle of the Earth. While skeptics have long used this verse to try discrediting the Bible by saying that this verse leads one to believe the Earth is a flat circular disc, the word in Hebrew indicates something that is spherical, rounded, or arched. The book of Isaiah was written 740-680 BC at least 300 years before Aristotle suggested in his book On The Heavens that the Earth might be a sphere. Still in 1492 some people still thought Christopher Columbus would sail off the edge of the land when he headed West across the Atlantic.
He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.Job 26:7 says that the Earth is suspended on nothing. Other religious cultures have claimed that the Earth sits on pillars, people and animals. Hindus believed the Earth rested on the back of an elephant which rested on the back of a turtle that swam through this endless cosmic sea. Greek mythology stated that the god Atlas carried the Earth on his back. However, it is not hard to find a photo of the Earth, with nothing supporting it on any side.
And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”Genesis 15:5 & As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”Jeremiah 33:22 implies that the stars are innumerable. Hiparcus, a second century astronomer and mathematician said that there were exactly 1,026 stars and Ptolemy said there was 1,056. Johanes Keppler in the seventeenth century said there were 1,006 and Gallileo upon looking through a telescope in 1608 said the Bible was right and everyone else was wrong. Modern scientists estimate that there are approximately 100,000,000,000 galaxies each containing approximately 200,000,000,000 stars. For every one of Earthʼs 6.2 billion people, there is 2 trillion stars each.
the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.Psalms 8:8 mentions the existence of ocean currents. Matthew Maury while listening to his wife read Psalms 8 took God at His word and went looking for the paths of the sea and later went on to become the father of oceanography. He used the Bible to discover the oceanʼs warm and cold currents!
For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain, which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.Job 36:27-28 describes the hydrologic cycle. This describes the movement of water as it is evaporated into the atmosphere and rained back down over land. It is found right in a portion of the Bible written over 2,000 years ago.