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[b]Job 38:16 (King James Version)
16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?Not known until the 20th century with the aid of a submersible: http://www.godsaidmansaid.com/printtopic.asp?ItemId=944
Job 25:5 (King James Version)
5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Not discovered until the 17th century by Galileo Galilei: http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/science/astronomy/biography/index.htm
Job 26:7 (King James Version)
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Discovered the law of gravity in 1666 A.D. six thousand years after the writer of the book of Job:
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112388/newton.htm
Isaiah 40:22 (King James Version)
22 It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Thousands of years before Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) and Copernicus theorized and/or discovered that the earth was round, the Bible revealed it:
http://octopus.gma.org/space1/nav_map.html
http://www.polskiinternet.com/english/nicolascopernicus.html [/B]
Dr. Steve Austin examines this subject in an ICR Impact article entitled, “Springs of the Ocean.” Deep underwater fountains in the ocean clearly stated in the word of God, however, were not officially discovered by modern scientists until the late 20th century by advanced underwater submarines. The following paragraphs are from Dr. Austin’s article:
The discovery of ocean floor springs represents a great milestone in the scientific investigation of the earth. Before 1930, little was known about the ocean floor. Volcanoes were observed to break the sea surface and this provided evidence of undersea volcanism. Because modern volcanoes on land emit steam, scientists suggested that water might be coming out of volcanoes on the ocean floor.
The deep sea dives of William Beebe’s bathysphere in the 1930s provided a close look at the ocean floor, but no springs were observed. In the 1940s, mapping of undersea topography was under way using the echo sounder. Thousands of undersea volcanoes called “seamounts” and “guyots” were recognized and speculation about undersea springs increased. In the 1960s, metal-rich, hot brines were discovered using sonar in the bottom of the Red Sea. This brine was an indirect evidence of water coming out of the ocean floor. Aided by reports from Mexican abalone divers, scientists using scuba equipment located shallow-water hot springs along the coast of Baja, California in the late 1960s.
Deep diving research submarines have been constructed to withstand the three-tons-per-square-inch pressure at the ocean floor. These submarines have carried scientists into the deep. The first direct observations of deep-sea springs, or their mineralized vents, appear to have been made on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge by Project FAMOUS in 1973. Spectacular hot springs were then discovered on the Galapagos Rift in the Pacific Ocean by the 23-foot long submersible Alvin in 1977. Alvin also explored, photographed and sampled hot springs on the East Pacific Rise just south of the Gulf of California in 1979. The research continues.
Several nontechnical magazine reports present photographs and descriptions of these recently discovered sea floor springs. The Galapagos Rift springs are described in the November 1979 issue of National Geographic. The article is titled, “Incredible World of Deep-sea Rifts” and bears the caption: “Scientists explore rifts in the sea floor where hot springs spew materials and startling life exists in a strange world without sun.”
The East Pacific Rise springs are shown in Science News, January 12, 1980. This article is titled, “Smokers, Red Worms, and Deep Sea Plumbing” and is followed by the caption: “Sea floor oases of mineral-rich springs and amazing creatures fulfill oceanographers’ dreams.” The discovery of these deep ocean springs is said to be the “most significant oceanographic find since the discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.”
The hot springs have been called “black smokers.” The “smoke” is the dark, mineral-laden, hot (up to 400 degrees Celsius) water spewing from “chimneys” up to 15-feet tall atop mounds of minerals up to 60-feet high. The minerals coating the vents are largely sulfides of copper, iron, and zinc precipitated instantly as the hot geysers contact the cold seawater. The vents provide the habitat for the first community of animals to be discovered which does not obtain energy by way of photosynthesis. Animals collected include red-tipped tube worms, giant clams, mussels, sea worms, crabs, and limpets.
The Science News article describes the East Pacific Rise springs:
The researchers found about two dozen hot springs stretched along six kilometers of the half-kilometer wide spreading center. But next to these angry-looking, superheated geysers called “smokers,” the Galapagos Rift vents looked like tepid sprinklers. Not only was the gushing water about 300 degrees Celsius hotter (the first attempt to measure the water temperature melted Alvin’s heat probe), but around the chimneys lay mounds of minerals including copper, iron, zinc, and sulfur with lesser amounts of cobalt, lead, silver and cadmium. Like the Galapagos, however, the same animals, with the exception of the mussels, were clustered in fields near the vents.
Although scientists have examined only a small portion of ocean floor, seafloor springs appear to be common along the 40,000-mile Mid-Oceanic Ridge system. Dr. John M. Edmond of MIT suggests that water circulation through oceanic systems is a major geologic process; he estimates that 40 cubic miles of water flow out of Earth’s oceanic springs each year.
Ballard, R.D., and J. F. Grassle, “Incredible World of Deep-sea Rifts,” National Geographic, v.156, no.5, November 1979, pp680-705.
Corliss, John B., “Submarine Thermal Springs on the Galapagos Rift,” Science News, v.203, no.4385, March 16, 1979, pp1073-1083
“Springs in the Ocean,” Impact, ICR, August 1, 1981
West, Susan, “Smokers, Red Worms, and Deep Sea Plumbing,” Science News, v.117, no.2, January 12, 1980, pp28-30
God's Word declares that the earth is floating in space without strings, support, or any thing physical keeping it there.
The word circle used in Isaiah 40:22 is the Hebrew khüg it denotes circle, circuit, compass, or sphere. http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2329&t=KJV