9,096 Stars in the Sky – Is That All?
This to me is one of the biggest proofs that the Torah (first part of the Bible) wasn’t just a bunch of legends written by man.<p>It says that Abraham’s children will be as numerous as the sand on the seashore and the... <i>stars in the sky</i>.<p>After all, as far as ancient people knew, there were millions (possibly billions) of sand grains by the sea, and ... maybe 5,000 stars?<p>I am sure Greek astronomers would have laughed at any Jew who said that the number of stars is in the millions and billions.<p>Yet these days with modern science we have found out that there <i>are</i> as many if not more stars than sand grains.<p>Now, an atheist would say “that was just an expression”. But who really uses stars as an example of millions, just like sand grains, over and over repeatedly, if they really thought there weren’t that many? It must have been one lucky guess!<p>There are other proofs but this to me is one of the hardest to explain away.<p>* EDIT: lots of militant atheists on this site I see, wielding that downvote button rather than engaging in substantive argument <i>