Genesis

passages: 62
fields: 8

Old Testament · passages in Genesis compared with current science.

Showing 49–62 of 62

Rain is caused by open windows in heaven.

Genesis 8:2

What it means: Rain comes from the water cycle, not windows in the sky.

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Humans should reproduce as much as possible without limit.

Genesis 9:1

What it means: Unrestricted population growth leads to famine and conflict as food, water, and space run out.

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All animals fear human beings.

Genesis 9:2

What it means: That’s false.

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Other animals and the Earth itself exist for humans to dominate.

Genesis 9:2

What it means: Biology and ecology show the opposite.

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Different languages exist because humans built a tower too tall.

Genesis 10:25

What it means: Genesis attributes the world’s many languages to a single event at Babel, when one common tongue was suddenly divided.

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At one time, the whole earth was of one language.

Genesis 11:1

What it means: Genesis attributes the world’s many languages to a single event at Babel, when one common tongue was suddenly divided.

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Many human languages were created instantaneously.

Genesis 11:9

What it means: Genesis attributes the world’s many languages to a single event at Babel, when one common tongue was suddenly divided.

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Humans once routinely lived 200 to 500 years.

Genesis 11:10-32

What it means: Humans don’t live 200–500 years because our bodies wear out at the cellular level.

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A man once lived 205 years.

Genesis 11:32

What it means: Humans don’t live 200–500 years because our bodies wear out at the cellular level.

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A person was chased to a city centuries before that city existed.

Genesis 14:14

What it means: Genesis says Abram pursued raiders as far as Dan, a city that Judges says bore the name Dan only from the era of the Judges.

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Animals' spots and stripes appear because they procreate in front of streaked rods.

Genesis 30:37-39

What it means: Animal patterns come from genetics and development, not from what they mate in front of.

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Underground reservoirs hold enough water to burst out and flood the whole planet.

Genesis 7:11

What it means: Every aquifer on Earth combined would raise sea level by only tens of meters if it all surfaced — nowhere near enough to drown mountains kilometers high.

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Eating mandrake root helps a woman conceive a child.

Genesis 30:14-16

What it means: Mandrake root has no proven effect on fertility — what it does contain are tropane alkaloids that can trigger hallucinations, a racing heart, and outright pois…

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Every kind of living thing appeared separately and none ever evolved from another.

Genesis 1:11-12,21,24-25

What it means: Common descent — the fact that all living things share ancestry — is one of the best-supported findings in all of science, backed by fossils, DNA, and speciati…

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