Hidden Light: Science Secrets of the Bible
Hidden Light is a far-reaching exploration of the scientific principles embedded in the Tanakh. Dr. David Medved draws on cosmology, astronomy,mathematics, chemistry, geology, and archeology to illuminate various biblical issues and phenomena. He demonstrates how the language of Psalm 19 anticipates the most recent findings on pulsars, binary star systems, and gravitational wave projects, provides an ingenious exploration of the chemical properties of tekhelet, and uses gematria to determine...
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Hidden Light is a far-reaching exploration of the scientific principles embedded in the Tanakh. Dr. David Medved draws on cosmology, astronomy,mathematics, chemistry, geology, and archeology to illuminate various biblical issues and phenomena. He demonstrates how the language of Psalm 19 anticipates the most recent findings on pulsars, binary star systems, and gravitational wave projects, provides an ingenious exploration of the chemical properties of tekhelet, and uses gematria to determine the value of pi. Hidden Light stimulates dialogue, debate, and collaboration between scientists and biblical scholars, and provides a fascinating approach to teaching science in religious schools.
Cosmology and the Bible 1Introduction - Creation According to the Bible, Modern Science and Pagan Accounts 2Genesis - The Six Days of Creation 2Biographical Note on Moshe Dove Medved 7Other Creation Stories 8Day I - How It All Began (The Origins of the Universe According to Science) 10Red Shift and the Expanding Universe 10Steady State vs. The Big Bang 12Biographical Note on George Gamow 16Ryle vs. Hoyle 18The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) 19The Light of Genesis 1, Chagiga 12a and the CMBR 23Edgar Allan Poe on Olbers' Paradox and the Big Bang, 100 Years Before Gamow 25The Second Day 27What is the Raqiya? 27Recent Research Results from High Energy Collision Experiments 29Other Commentaries on the Raqiya 30Where Has All The Anti-Matter Gone? 31The Wave Equations of Schrodinger and Dirac: Matter & Anti-Matter 37Talmudic and Rabbinic Exegetes 42Resolution of the Contradiction between the Chronology in Genesis and Cosmogony - for Days Three and Four 43The Nature of the Primordial Atmosphere 43Problems with Rashi's Commentary on Genesis 11:5-8 44The Age of the Universe 46Does the "Age" Depend on Location? 46A 13th Century Calculation 47The Age of the Universe in Christian Thought 49An Alternative Calculation 50The Fate of the Universe: Expansion Forever 51Philosophers and Poets 51The Friedmann Solutions to the Einstein Equations 53Biblical Sources 55Science and Eschatology (the End of Days) 57Leviticus XXV and the Seven Sabbatical Cycles 63The Music of the Celestial Spheres (Astronomy and the Bible) 67Psalm 19 (King David, ca. 1000 BCE) 68From Pythagoras (Sixth Century BCE) to Holst 70Bode's Law and Musical Octaves 73The Secrets of Science in Psalm 19 74Conclusions 82God of Wonders 85Timeline of the Concept 87Pi(II) in the Bible (Mathematics and the Bible) 89A brief history of Pi 90Critique, Invective and Worse 95Apologia On Behalf of the Biblical Value 97The Revealed Value of Pi in the Bible 97Huram of Tyre 100Chemistry and the Bible 103Biblical Blue (TEKHELET): Origins and Chemistry 104Questions on the Book of Numbers XV:38-39 104Commentaries on the Questions 105Biblical Blue (tekhelet) and Tyrian Purple (argaman) - History and Sources 108The Chemical Structures 114The Physics of Color and Photochromic Processes 118Tekhelet and the Flag of Israel 121The Structure of Water and Its Amazing Properties 122The Water Molecule 122Water in the Bible 124Concluding remarks 126Other Forms of Water: Ice and Snow 126The Color of Ice 126Snow in the Bible 127Lunar-Solar Periodicities of Large Earthquakes on North-South Rifts 131History of Earthquake Predictions 131The Kilston-Knopoff Paper on Lunar-Solar Periodicities of Large Earthquakes in Southern California 133Earthquakes in the Bible (The Jordan Rift) 139Large Earthquakes on the Jordan Rift since 31 BCE 145The Great Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunami of December, 2004 148Conclusions and Forecasts 148List of Figures 149Archaeology and the Bible (The Exodus from Egypt) 151Open Questions on Exodus 151The Date According to the Bible 152The Route According to the Bible 154Archaeological Evidence 157Dating Problems 159Is Evil ([characters not reproducible]) MARS? 160Acknowledgements 167
