As a bonafide inter-disciplinary amateur scientist (being that yours truly has completed accredited general-sciences curriculum courses in a suburban high school and got A's in Natural Science at the collegiate level, plus has engaged in rigorous and substantial Independent Study, for starters), your webpost author has not been prejudicially closed-minded nor biased to anything he has detected (so far) with his five senses, encountered, and understandably been curious about (which was not obviously-to-himself self-destructive to investigate) during his lifetime.

A small sample of the phenomena which he has come upon and which came his way are three perplexing portions of that time-honored, generationally-respected-and-quoted, impeccably-historical compilation called: "The Holy Bible" which somewhat puzzle him:

The first bizarre Scriptural references are to Earth's "foundations:"

Job 38:4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding."

Psalm 102:25 Of old you did lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

I had always thought that the Earth has no foundation, but instead is suspended upon nothing within outer space:

Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing. [ Note the use of present and not past tense of both verbs! ]

Critics have expressed not simply concern but even frustration and dismay by the hard-to-distinguish mixing of what is probably to be taken literally in stark contrast to what is probably to be taken figuratively or symbolically in The Bible. Even yours truly has heard of euphemistic expressions of figurative descriptors, within the realm of the metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic, and it is rather difficult to discern when what mentioned verbatim is supposed to be taken literally or otherwise.

Perhaps the word foundation is used not in the sense of an immovable planet Earth as a whole laying on something else both larger and immovably solid (sort of like a cradle), but has to do with the planet's internal construction.

The second bizarre Scriptural references are to "stretching out" (or "spreading out") the heavens, and note the crucial difference between the lone use of the past tense in the RSV references compared to the multiple and majority use of the present tense in all the other translations or Bible versions:

Job 9:8 (RSV) . . . who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;
Job 9:8 (KJV, ASV, JPS, KJ21, MKJV) Who alone stretcheth (or spreadeth) out the heavens, and treadeth (or trampleth) upon the waves of the sea.

Psalm 104:2 (RSV) who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched out the heavens like a tent,
Psalm 104:2 (KJV, ASV, JPS, KJ21, MKJV) Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

Isaiah 44:24 (RSV) Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth--Who was with me?--
Isaiah 44:24 (KJV, ASV, KJ21, MKJV) "Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, and He that formed thee from the womb: I am the LORD that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth abroad the earth by Myself;

Interestingly, ALL Bible versions put the "stretched out" in past tense in the following four verses:

Isaiah 45:12 (KJV, ASV, JPS, KJ21, MKJV, RSV) I made the earth, and created man upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
Isaiah 51:13 (KJV, ASV, JPS, KJ21, MKJV, RSV) . . . and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

Jeremiah 10:12 (KJV, ASV, JPS, KJ21, MKJV, RSV) It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Jeremiah 51:15 "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

However, the Zechariah verse below is back in a mixture of past and present tenses for the versions indicated:

Zechariah 12:1 (RSV, JPS) An Oracle: The word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus says the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:
Zechariah 12:1 (KJV, ASV, KJ21, MKJV) The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

"Stretching forth" or "spreading out" the celestial heavens in the present tense would indicate that the universe is expanding (and likely has expanded in the past) . . . whereas "stretched forth" or "spread out" the celestial heavens in the past tense would indicate that the universe has expanded and either is or is not currently expanding.

In any case, the power and force of fast-moving matter moving out in explosive expansion is FAR greater than infinitesmally weak gravitational attraction between particles of matter, and so laughably-but-pathetic imaginary (perhaps even hallucinary) presumption of eventual or sudden condensation of violently-outgoing matter cooling and then randomly condensing into intricately-orderly planets or whatever is obviously absurd and ridiculous.

The third bizarre Scripture references are to the Earth and phenomena thereof being "fixed:"

Genesis 47:22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh [non-profit tax exemption], and lived on the allowance [Social Security] which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. [It is relating to Christians that geographical-border partitions are made].

Psalm 74:17 You have fixed all the bounds of the earth; you have made summer and winter.

Psalm 119:89 Forever, LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.

Psalm 148:4 Praise Him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!
Psalm 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD! For He commanded and they were created.
Psalm 148:6 And He established them forever; He fixed their bounds which cannot be passed.

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar: the LORD of hosts is His name:
Jeremiah 31:36 "If this fixed order leaves me," says the LORD, "then shall the descendants of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever."

Acts 1:7 He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by His own authority."

Acts 17:31 . . . because He has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, and of this He has given assurance to all humans by raising Him from the dead."

The reason for my wonderment about the word "fixed" is that I have always believed that the Earth is in constant motion as it moves within the Universe. However, I can see the concept applicable and valid in the sense that all the objects and inter-related gravitational and other forces affecting them do not change and are in perfect balance.

If God the Creator had only created continuous starlight from apparently-existing-but-actually-non-existing distant stars we see every night in the night sky, perhaps the Lord could then be accused of being "deceptive." Maybe that would also apply to God apparently being "deceptive" by having humans appear only fully-grown from the start without growing from conception to fetalhood to infanthood to toddlerhood then tweenhood then teenhood and finally adulthood.

However, God would not be "deceptive" if He not only created enroute starlight we (on our Biblically-documented-mere-8000-year-old planet) keep seeing every night but ALSO simultaneously created the actual millions-of-light-years-distant stars and novas and galaxies and nebulas and more connected with that enroute "star"-light!

Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that humans should fear Him.

Questions about God's reliable consistency in nature?

Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

. . . unless of course moved by an outside entity or phenomenon, such as an animal, human, earthquake, dynamite, bulldozer, etc.

Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is God!), who formed the earth and made it (He established it; he did not create it a chaos, He formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other."

IS there consistency of what God has created? Since trees grow every day and every night, are we seeing the same trees . . or instead different ones second by second due to growth? Since ice cubes melt every day and every night, are we seeing the same ice cubes . . or instead different ones second by second due to decay?

The answer to both questions is: we not only see the original tree from day to day, but more of each one. Also, we not only see the original ice cubes from day to day, but less of them.

One thing that has been "fixed" (or made reliably and assuredly constant) is Earth's water, and the properties of such water are fascinating.

Unlike liquid nitrogen, which one can cup his hands into only very briefly before severe frostbite destroys skin tissue, water expands when it freezes, and if it did not, ice would sink to the bottoms of oceans and lakes, kill the sealife and fish therein, pile up from the bottom until the ocean or lake become all solid ice, and never completely melt, thus causing everything on Earth to go into deepfreeze.

Music played to cows makes them produce better and more milk. [ Thought that I would throw that one in there just for kicks ].

Also, amazingly, water has the potential to absord massive amounts of heat. If one takes a balloon, fills it with water, holds a lit candle under the balloon, the water within the balloon in close proximity with the rubber or latex of the balloon will absorb the flame heat so quickly and significantly that the flame will not burn the balloon, but instead cause the water inside the balloon to eventually boil. That principle happens on a global scale in the case of Earth covered mostly with water, and if that was not the case, solar radiation from the Sun (not to be merely called another of the myriad "stars" in the Universe) would soon fry everything on the surface of planet Earth.

Nothing in Scripture indicates that it took God the Creator several minutes, a century, 60 million years, 4-to-8 billion years, or 999 zillion years, to create the heavens and the Earth. Therefore, it is not unimaginable that the Creator God created "the heavens and the earth" in an instant, in the proverbial "twinkling of an eye," back in the beginning of time. That caused the "days of Creation Week's" proverbial clock to relentlessly start ticking for the first time. How He did that was of course supernatural, so logically the supernatural therefore obviously created the natural:

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.

Circles of forces comprise nucleonic structure, not the simplistic Niels Bohr solar-system theory of atomic structure. Explore http://commonsensescience.org about that when you can.

Colossians 1:17 He [ Jesus Christ, the Son of God ] is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

The first chapter of the Old-Testament book of Genesis is a multi-faceted and admirably-comprehensive conglomeration of who created what in nature regarding the physical phenomena we humans can detect, how long it took Him to create such, what sequence He created them in, and - to some extent - His purpose(s) for doing all such.

Though it is not understood why rebellious, beyond-simply-defensive, mean-spirited-when-confronted, arrogantly-belligerent atheists, agnostics, homosexuals, and evolutionists would not want to include the "who" and the "why" of creation and creationism in their hostile meanderings and tinkerings to mis-revise and misrepresent the sciences and scientific data stated in Genesis chapter one, it is possible (in vain, futile, and useless effort to maybe humor them) to present the mere elementary astronomical, botanical, zoological, and anthropological essence of Genesis chapter one as follows, omitting the science of the study of religion (i.e. theology), with the following strange and weird alteration:

Genie-sis 1:1 Initially, there were outer space and the Earth.
2 The earth was a shapeless watery mass, in total darkness, which began the science of geophysics.
3 Thereafter, there was light.
4 Light was neat, and the light was separate from the darkness.
5 Light was called "Day," and darkness was called "Night." And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
6 Next there was "Sky" in the middle of the water, which separated liquid surface water from water-vapor clouds, which began the science of meteorology.
7 So there was sky which separated water below from water above. And it was so.
8 The sky was called "Heaven." And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9 After that, dry land came about separating surface waters called oceans and seas. That began the science of oceanography. And it was so.
10 The dry land was called "earth" and the surface waters gathered together were called "oceans" or "seas," and that was also neat.
11 Following that, vegetation came into being, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth. That started the sciences of botany, biology, and biochemistry. And it was so.
12 So the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. That started the science of horticulture and forestry. That, again, was neat.
13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 Thereafter there came about lights in the sky to separate the day from the night; which were for signs and for seasons and for days and years,
15 and there were lights in the sky of outer space to give light upon the earth. That started the science of astronomy and astrophysics. And it was so.
16 Two great lights came into being, the greater to brighten the day, and the lesser to brighten the night; stars then came about.
17 They were in the sky of outer space to give light upon the earth,
18 to brighten the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. That also was neat.
19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 Then the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers brought forth swarms of living creatures, and birds flew above the earth across the sky of outer space. That started the science of zoology and enhanced some of the other sciences already operating.
21 So there were great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. That, again, was neat.
22 The sea creatures and birds were quite reproductive all over the Earth, enhancing the science of genetics.
23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 Then the earth brought forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.
25 So there were beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And that was neat.
26 Then humans came into being, which started the sciences of anthropology and enhanced the sciences of physiology, genetics and anatomy, and humans had control over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
27 So humans came about, both male and female.
28 And humans were to be quite reproductive all over the planet, and had control over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
29 And they had plants to eat yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit for food.
30 And every beast of the earth, and every bird of the air, and everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, had green plants for food. And it was so.
31 And it was obvious that everything that came into being was really neat. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Now, not only the science of theology (with reference to God the Creator in Genesis chapter one) could be omitted, but also any one or number of the other sciences mentioned above, if whoever so objects to that science being included.

For example, geophysics could be omitted, which would result in every verse beyond and including Genesis 1:1 taken out of the any further Biblical text.
Meteorology could be omitted, resulting in every verse beyond Genesis 1:5 removed from any following Scriptural text.
Oceanography could be omitted, resulting in everything beyond Genesis 1:8 deleted.
Botany, biology, and biochemistry, along with horticulture and forestry could be omitted, necessitating everything beyond Genesis 1:10 taken out.
Astronomy and astrophysics could be omitted, if everything beyond Genesis 1:13 taken away.
Zoology could be omitted, requiring everything beyond Genesis 1:19 discarded.
Anthropology could be omitted, if everything after Genesis 1:25 was trashed.

Specialists in all the above-named sciences (including theology) do like to concentrate on their particular science of interest in the classroom, whether in research papers or scholarly dissertations or lectures. However, all the sciences are obviously inter-related, and passing reference to other sciences is certainly legitimate within the parameters of cohesively-seamless intellectual integration facilitating unified understandability.

So, what's next?

Job 11:12 But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild donkey's colt is born a man.

And, as a matter of public safety . . .

Should business store entrances be on the right, or instead on the left, for those entering the store from the outside?
Should business store exits be on the right, or instead on the left, for those leaving the store?
Should cars drive forward on the right side of a two-way-traffic road, or instead on the left?

Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man's heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool's heart toward the left.

Remind my usually-saintly inferior-gender mother-in-law of that one. And no - I'm not in trouble now.

Speaking of mothers-in-law, heterosexual men and women couples who want to do sex together should consider themselves permanently married to each other when they actually do sex alone together, and (to counter expensive hotel and motel room costs in our current inflated and over-priced economy) there should be many more free-access lockable-and-carpeted family rooms (in churches, shopping centers, truck stops, libraries, etc.) with cots, chairs, showers, and towel dispensers therein for them to do private sex together.

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:21 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it."

Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings [ nor piercings? ] in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Isaiah 3:17 the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.
Isaiah 20:4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 47:2 Take the millstones and grind meal, take off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
Isaiah 47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man.

Ezekiel 16:7 ". . . and grow up like a plant of the field." And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full maidenhood; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown [wherever?]; yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 "When I passed by you again and looked upon you, hey, you were at the age for love; and I spread my cloak over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I promised engagement to you and entered into a covenant with you," says the Lord GOD, "and you became mine."
Ezekiel 16:9 Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you, and anointed you with [massage?] oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with leather, I decorated you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

Hosea 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead - for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband - that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;
Hosea 2:3 lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word...

First Timothy 2:8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
9 also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in decent apparel, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly attire [ nor fingernail polish, toe nail polish, mascara, rouge, lipstick, eyelid shadow? ]
10 but by good works, as befits women who profess religion.
11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
12 I allow no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
15 Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with sobriety.

First Timothy 5:14 (RSV) So I would have younger "widows" marry [ "Widows" is a wrong word used there. The Greek word ne(o)teras in this verse always and only means: younger women -- never "younger widows" and which word obviously overrides any presumed previous widows-referencing context; the Greek word for "widows," which is ch(e)ras, occurs nowhere within First Timothy 5:14 ] bear children, rule their households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us.
First Timothy 5:14 (JPS) I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
First Timothy 5:14 (KJ21) It is my will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

First Peter 3:1 Likewise you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the word, may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,
2 when they see your reverent and chaste behavior.
3 Let not yours be the outward adorning with plaited [ or weirdly-curled, weirdly-twisted? ] hair, decoration of gold, and wearing of fine clothing,
4 but let it be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable jewel of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
5 So once the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves and were submissive to their husbands,
6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him 'chief?' 'boss?' 'sir?' [or similar]. And you are now her children if you do right and let nothing terrify you.
7 Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman, the weaker gender, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.