Is there any scientific knowledge to be found in the Bible?

If you define scientific knowledge as being knowledge gained using the scientific method, then the answer is no, because the scientific method hadn’t been invented in Bible times.

Having said that, the Bible does contain certain things that seem to be precursors to the scientific method. For example, the insistence on two or three witnesses (2 Corinthians 13:1, Matthew 18:16, Deuteronomy 19:15, Deuteronomy 17:6) is a foreshadowing of the whole principle of reproducibility, and then there are also the verses that insist on honest weights and measures (Deuteronomy 25:13-16; Leviticus 19:35-36; Ezekiel 45:10; Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10; Proverbs 20:23; Hosea 12:6-7; Amos 8:4-8; Micah 6:10-13).

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