Meteorology – The atmosphere and its phenomena and especially with weather and weather forecasting.
One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness. (Kenneth Arrow)
The weather.
We depend on it so much for daily life, and so often, when we try to predict it, we seem to be right about the weather…
Maybe half of the time.
Think about it, it will either rain this morning or it won’t…It will either snow later in the evening or it won’t…Or it will be sunny tomorrow…
Or it won’t.
Humanity has been chasing the winds, literally, for thousands of years. Chasing the winds in the hopes of predicting and perhaps someday, perhaps controlling, those winds.
And the rain…and the snow…and the hail…and the sun…and the…
I hope you get the point.
For example, consider humanities attempt to predict the weather with the following inventions listed chronologically below throughout the centuries:
The thermometer, (which measures air temperature), dating back to 220 BC.
The rain gauge, (which measures liquid precipitation), dating back to 400 BC.
The anemometer, (which measures wind speed), first developed in 1450.
The hygrometer, (which measures humidity in the atmosphere), beginning around 1480.
The barometer, (which measures air pressure), who some claim was actually created by accident between 1640 and 1643.
The ceilometer, used to determine the height of clouds and their thickness), beginning in 1871.
The Stevenson Screen, (which protects weather instruments from precipitation and direct heat radiation to provide more accurate data collection), beginning in 1884.
The weather balloon, (which are essentially mobile weather stations), beginning in 1896.
The weather ship, (which were pre-satellite weather data collectors), beginning in 1921.
Radar, (which is used to track and predict precipitation, as being either: rain, snow, hail, etc.), beginning in 1935 and Doppler Radar in 1958.
The weather satellite, (which measures vast amounts of data about the weather), beginning in 1946.
The weather buoy, (which replaced the more expensive weather ship), beginning in the 1950’s.
The disdrometer, (which measures speed and size of falling precipitation), beginning in 1967.
The transmissometer, (which measures visibility in the atmosphere), beginning in 1972.
All that time. All that expense. All those resources…
And tomorrow, it will either rain or it won’t…It will either snow or it won’t…Or it will be sunny or it won’t…
No matter what any or all of the instruments say.
Perhaps this is in part an important reason why meteorology is consistently mentioned throughout both the Old and New Testament of the Holy Bible.
The weather is important to us.
I would submit to you that the information contained here will ultimately help to prove the point that this whole website, (and blog), is ultimately about:
Someone. Upstairs. Runs. The. Show.
And so, as I wrap up this portion of SURTSMeteorology, I would ask that you consider the following…
For a book that is not intended to be a book on science, let alone meteorology, it is quite amazing, not only on the amount of science that is in there, but the validity of the references regarding meteorology, that are in there.
Based on the evidence presented, I would submit to you there is absolutely nowhere in the Bible where the meteorology 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 meteorology.
What is truly amazing is the fact that many of the facts above were already in the Bible before man and his science…and meteorology, ‘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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| Genesis 7:12 To 2 Samuel 21:1 | Isaiah 4:6 To Nahum 1:3 |
| 1 Kings 8:35-36 To Job 38:1-2 | Haggai 1:11 To Acts 27:11-15 |
| Job 38:22-23 To Ecclesiastes 11:3-4 | Acts 27:6-10 To Revelation 16:21 |
25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?