Exodus

passages: 8
fields: 5

Old Testament · passages in Exodus compared with current science.

Showing 1–8 of 8

A 250-mile journey took 40 years to complete.

Exodus 16:35

What it means: Exodus describes Israel spending forty years in the wilderness between Egypt and Canaan, a distance walkable in weeks.

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A group of 70 people grew to several million in just a few hundred years.

Exodus 1:5 · Exodus 12:37

What it means: This population growth is mathematically impossible.

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A famous leader's origin story — set adrift in a sealed basket, rescued, raised by another — is unique and original.

Exodus 2:3

What it means: Exodus describes the infant Moses set adrift in a sealed basket on the river and rescued, a scene that parallels the older legend of Sargon of Akkad.

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Disabilities like blindness and deafness are deliberately designed, not caused by biology.

Exodus 4:11

What it means: Disabilities are not cosmic jokes; they are natural outcomes of biology, development, and environment.

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Diseases only afflict people who have angered a powerful being.

Exodus 15:26

What it means: Diseases spread through biology, not through angering anyone.

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A special food substance fell from the sky each morning to feed people in a desert.

Exodus 16:14-15

What it means: No food falls from the sky on command.

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The universe formed in six 24-hour days.

Exodus 20:11

What it means: Scientists can measure the age of the universe using multiple methods.

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Some people are permanently immune to all disease, hunger, thirst, and infertility.

Exodus 23:25-26

What it means: Science says no.

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