Whole Numbers: Scientific Notation
Scientific Notation is a short-hand for writing large numbers in a simpler way.
For example: 3,000,000 is 3 x 10^6, 48,000,000 = 4.8 x 10^6
The Bible does not use Scientific Notation. The reason is because Scientific Notation
is not something the Bible is trying to teach. The bible is faithful and correct in all
that it tries to teach us about God. However, there are numbers in the Bible
that can be converted into Scientific Notation.
Example
Gen. 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, ohe made him in the likeness of God. 2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man1 when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and pnamed him Seth. 4 qThe days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 5 Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, rand he died.
Adam lived 930 years. This is 9 x 10^2 + 3 x 10^1 or 9.3 x 10^2
Example
Research done in 2016 suggests that there are about 30 trillion cells in a human adult male’s body.
Knowing that God is our creator [Genesis 1], how many cells is this in Scientific Notation?
30 trillion = 30,000,000,000,000 = 3 x 10^13
Questions
1. What is the likely-hood that 30 trillion cells would know how to “work together” by chance?
2. Is God confused, or confounded by large numbers?
3. Today it is estimated that there are 7 billion people on planet earth. Convert this number to Scientific Notation.
4. Is 7 billion people too many for God to love?
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