Biology – The study of living organisms.
Ants And Bats And Caterpillars Oh My!
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language. (Martin Buber)
As I began the process of researching, writing and putting together SURTSBiology, I realized that there were at least 37 sets of bible verses that someway…somehow…mentions directly or indirectly, items that qualify under the scientific study of biology.
And that is just for ants and bats and caterpillars.
Are there bible verses relating to ants and bats and caterpillars that I may have missed? Maybe. What I did discover while putting this section of SURTSScience – Biology together is the fact that the Holy Bible has plenty to say about not only ants and bats and caterpillars, but many more of our planets creatures as well. In fact, there are so many bible verses relating to the study of biology, SURTSBiology had to be divided up into 10 sections:
Genesis and Leviticus And Proverbs Oh My!
Ants And Bats And Caterpillars Oh My!
Chameleons And Crickets And Doves Oh My!
Eagles And Flies And Hares Oh My!
Hawks And Lambs And Locusts Oh My!
Moles And Owls And Pigs Oh My!
Pigeons And Rats And Seagulls Oh My!
Serpents And Spiders And Vipers Oh My!
Vultures And Wild Goats And Worms Oh My! and,
For this section of SURTSBiology…Ants And Bats And Caterpillars Oh My!, I would ask that you consider the following…
For a book that is not intended to be a book on science, let alone biology, it is quite amazing, not only on the amount of science that is in there, but the validity of the references regarding biology, that are in there.
Based on the evidence presented, I would submit to you there is absolutely nowhere in the Bible where the biology topics are unfounded. I would also submit to you that there is nowhere in the Bible where any scientific discovery since the Bible was put together, has yet to be proven false, regarding biology.
What is truly amazing is the fact that many of the facts above were already in the Bible before man and his science…and biology, ‘discovered’ them. In multiple cases, by hundreds or thousands of years.
What other religious book has this record?
The point is this:
While the Holy Bible is of course a religious book first and foremost, clearly, it is much more than that.
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Ants And Bats And Caterpillars Oh My!:
1. Ant:
Ants are successful creatures; they are successful because they know very well that the mind of the team is superior to the mind of the individual! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: (Proverbs 6:6 KJV)
25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; (Proverbs 30:25 KJV)
2. Antelope (Hart):
To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. (George Carlin)
5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. (Deuteronomy 14:5 KJV)
1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. (Psalms 42:1 KJV)
3. Ape:
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man. (Henry Fairfield Osborn)
22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. (1 Kings 10:22 KJV)
21 For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. (2 Chronicles 9:21 KJV)
4. Badger:
Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. (Julian Assange)
6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. (Numbers 4:6 KJV)
8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof. (Numbers 4:8 KJV)
10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon a bar. 11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof: 12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put them on a bar: (Numbers 4:10-12 KJV)
14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins, and put to the staves of it. (Numbers 4:14 KJV)
25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers’ skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, (Numbers 4:25 KJV)
5. Bat:
In their previous lives, poets were bats. (Michael Bassey Johnson)
19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. (Leviticus 11:19 KJV)
18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. (Deuteronomy 14:18 KJV)
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; (Isaiah 2:20 KJV)
6. Bear:
Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby. (James Rollins)
34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: 35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. 37 David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee. (1 Samuel 17:34-37 KJV)
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. (2 Kings 2:24 KJV)
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. (Isaiah 11:7 KJV)
5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. (Daniel 7:5 KJV)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. (Revelation 13:2 KJV)
7. Bee:
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. (Ray Bradbury)
8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. (Judges 14:8 KJV)
8. Beetle:
I am thinking of a sky filled with spaceships, so many of them that they seem like a plague of locusts, silver against the luminous mauve of the night. (Neil Gaiman)
22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. (Leviticus 11:22 KJV)
9. Camel:
Patience, patience! Even the camel with its huge nostrils can only take one breath at a time. (Marty Rubin)
10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. (Genesis 24:10 KJV)
4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. (Leviticus 11:4 KJV)
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. (Isaiah 30:6 KJV)
4 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:4 KJV)
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (Matthew 19:24 KJV)
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. (Matthew 23:24 KJV)
10. Caterpillar:
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. (Mandy Hale)
37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; (1 Kings 8:37 KJV)
28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be: (2 Chronicles 6:28 KJV)
20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. (Job 39:20 KJV)
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. (Psalm 78:46 KJV)
34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number, (Psalm 105:34 KJV)
5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: (Ecclesiastes 12:5 KJV)
23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable. (Jeremiah 46:23 KJV)
4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. (Joel 1:4 KJV)
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25 KJV)
17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. (Nahum 3:17 KJV)
And there you have it.
There are at least 37 sets of bible verses found in the Holy Bible, whose focus is on ants…to bats…to caterpillars. All of these bible verses can be considered under the scientific branch of biology.
If one of these verses is read independently, then it is possible to assume the reader may not come to this conclusion:
While the Holy Bible is of course a religious themed book first and foremost, clearly, it is much more than that.
I would submit to you that in regards to the Holy Bible and the scientific field of biology…
The reliability is more than coincidence.
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