Does the Bible Teach Science?

The earth is a sphere, floating free in space.  Matter consists of microscopic particles.  There are mountains on the ocean floor.  Light can be divided into separate colours.  There are an incalculable number of stars.  The continents originated as one large land mass.  The universe contains black holes and dark matter.

These just some of the anticipations of the findings of modern science that are said to be found in the Bible.

Here’s a web site that lists 101 of them.

And here’s an attempt to debunk the claims.

You might also care to look at this earlier post of mine.  As I have commented generally (see posts in the ‘Science & Faith’ category), I think that there is a profound relationship between Christian faith and scientific discovery.  But I do think that the claims and counter-claims just mentioned are largely an exercise in missing the point.

Was it Galileo who said that the purpose of Scripture is to tell us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go?