Originally posted by holywar

Gerald Schroeder, a former professor of nuclear physics, writes: “ The Bible relates in thirty-one verses, in a few hundred words, events spanning sixteen billion years. These are events about which scientists have written literally millions of words. The entire development of animal life is summarized in eight biblical sentences. Considering the brevity of the biblical narrative, the match between the statements and timing in Genesis 1 and the discoveries of modern science is phenomenal, especially when we realize that all biblical interpretation used here was recorded centuries, even millennia, in the past and so was not in any way influenced by the discoveries of modern science. It is modern science that has come to match the biblical account of our genesis.

Compression and cryptography in use today indicate its more than likely further advanced civilisations utilise similar techniques. This is the greatest illusion of all time. Cheers OP interesting stuff.