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In 1953, a researcher with the Johns Hopkins Institute of Medicine did a test in which he planted a certain seedling in the fresh muscle juices of various ‘clean’ and ‘unclean’ animals as cited by Leviticus.
He would then record the percent of seeds that grew in the meat juices as compared to those that grew under normal circumstances. Seeds grown in the juices of ‘clean’ animals, like the ox, sheep, calf, goat or deer, grew 90% of the time.
Those nurtured in the juices of an ‘unclean’ animal; swine, rabbits, camels and horses failed to grow more than half the time, due to their natural toxicity. Similar tests between ‘clean’ and ‘unclean’ birds yielded similar results.
The same experiment was conducted with fish, both those with fins and scales [clean] and those without [unclean].
Clean fish had almost zero toxicity while unclean fish were exceeding toxic to the seedlings. How could Moses know all that?
Lastly, let’s look at the Bible’s instructions for circumcision. For centuries, Western medicine considered it to be a barbaric practice of no medical value.
Modern research proves that circumcision virtually eliminates any risk of penile cancer.
Circumcised infants suffer 20 times fewer urinary tract infections than uncircumcised infants.
Circumcision reduces the risk of getting or transmitting many sexually transmitted diseases. Again, how could Moses have known all this in the Sinai desert three thousand years ago?
But wait! As long as we’re on the subject, there’s more!
In 1953 edition of Holt Pediatrics contains a section titled, “Hemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn.” The section deals with the occurrence of occasional spontaneous bleeding among newborns that can sometimes cause severe damage to major organs such as the brain, and even death.
In the discussion pertaining to the reasons for such bleeding, the authors note that the excessive bleeding is primarily caused by a decreased level of prothrombin, which in turn is caused by insufficient levels of vitamin K.
A chart outlines the levels of available prothrombin in a newborn. It dips from about 90% of normal on its day of birth to about 35% on its third day of life outside the womb.
After the third day, the available prothrombin begins to climb. By the eighth day of the child’s life, the available prothrombin level is approximately 110% of normal, about 20% higher than it was on the first day, and about 10% more than itwill be during the rest of the child’s life.
That means that the best possible time to perform such a procedure is on the eighth day after birth.
Genesis 17:12-14 specifies that circumcision be performed on the eighth day after birth — even if the eighth day fell on a Sabbath.
Assessment:
There is simply no explanation for the advanced medical knowledge outlined by Moses in the middle of the Sinai desert three thousand years ago.
Moses couldn’t have learned it in Egypt. What Moses learned about medicine in Egypt would kill more often than it would cure.
He couldn’t have learned it while tending Jethro’s herds. He couldn’t have learned it while leading the Exodus out of Egypt.
But there it is. Medical knowledge so advanced that most of it was unknown to Western medicine for another thirty centuries!