Science & Scripture

Amos

passages

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fields

3

Old Testament · passages in Amos compared with current science.

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• Weather events like thunder, rain, and droughts are direct punishments or rewards for human behavior.

  Deuteronomy 11:13-17 · Amos 4:7

  What it means: Weather follows natural patterns explained by meteorology.

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• A famous star cluster contains only seven stars, and Orion was deliberately designed as a recognizable pattern.

  Amos 5:8

  What it means: The Pleiades (Messier 45) is an open star cluster containing over 1,000 confirmed stars, not seven.

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• The sun can be made to set at noon, plunging the Earth into darkness on a clear day.

  Amos 8:9

  What it means: The sun is a continuous thermonuclear fusion reactor converting 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second.

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• A sea serpent at the bottom of the ocean obeys voice commands to bite specific people who try to hide underwater.

  Amos 9:1-4

  What it means: The deepest point in the ocean is the Challenger Deep at 10,935 meters.

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