Whadaya Expect From A Miraculous Book?

For many centuries, man considered the seashore as little more than a
shallow, sandy extension that went from one continent to another. Then, in
1873 a group of British scientists carrying out research in the Pacific
Ocean discovered a "recess" (trench) 35,800 feet deep. A trench is a long,
narrow depression in the ocean floor that looks like an enormous gash with
extremely steep sides. The topography and depth of these trenches are used
to distinguish them from other valleys and depressions in the oceans. Three
major oceans have trenches in them, but the Pacific is most renowned for
such. Extensive studies have been carried out on the Marianas Trench off the
coast of Guam. In fact, several years ago a research team, using the
bathyscaph Trieste, traveled almost seven miles down into one trench.

The Bible, however, once again contained such knowledge long before mankind
discovered it. Biblical scholars acknowledge that the use of the Hebrew word
tehom ("abyssal depth"<see Genesis 7:11) may well be a reference to such
trenches. Job was asked by God, "Hast thou walked in the recesses of the
deep?" (38:16). Psalm 145:6 speaks of God as being even in "the deep." We
now know -- thanks to years of intense, successful scientific investigations
-- that such "recesses" actually do occur in the oceans of our planet.
Admittedly, our knowledge of these matters resulted from impressive
technological achievements covering many generations. But where did the
writer of the book of Job obtain his information? And how did the psalmist
know to use a word that depicted oceanic depths? ("Scientific Foreknowledge
and Biblical Accuracy," Bert Thompson, Ph.D, "Reason and Revelation,"
October 1993, 13[10]:78).