The Movement of Wind according to Science and Bible

"The wind goes toward the south, and turns about unto the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again to its circuits." (Ecc. 1:6)

The book of Ecclesiastes was written about 3,000 years ago. It took a French mathematician named Coeriolis, who died in 1843, to study and identify wind circuits. What Coeriolis discovered supported the Bible statement in Ecclesiastes, not just in one way, but in three ways.

First notice the Bible said wind goes south and turns about unto the north. Coeriolis found the wind goes clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, and then turns about and goes counter clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere! Named for him, the Coriolis effect is very important in understanding wind and ocean currents.

Second, are there in fact wind circuits? The World Book Encyclopedia has a diagram showing the known wind systems, or circuits. Their diagram is a map of the earth with little arrows showing the location and direction of each wind circuit. How many are there? Their diagram has plotted 28 circuits!

But there's more. You have heard your local TV weather personalities refer to the "jet stream" and how it affects your local weather. Jet streams do exist. They too have established circuits. The jet streams have winds at speeds of up to 200 mph. World War II pilots first discovered them.

Third, the Bible said the wind whirls about continually. How could an observer on the ground possibly know that? In fact at ground level the wind blows the very opposite of continually. But obviously the higher winds do. If they didn't, the encyclopedia could not diagram 28 of their circuits.

Ecclesiastes 1:6 made no sense in 1,000 BC, and no sense for 2,800 years until the research of Coeriolis in the early 1800s.

That Bible statement about the winds written 3,000 years ago, was against all logic, all that was known at the time. I submit to you that this correct knowledge, this scientifically accurate picture, came from something or someone higher than man; it was divinely inspired.

Source: Bible Study