This article talks about scientists extracting cores from the sediment in the Dead Sea to analyze natural disasters and other climate patterns from the past. Some of the evidence they have found shows that some of the accounts in the Bible actually could correspond to real climate phenomena. This could be important for religion because the Bible tends not to correspond too much to history, but the more scientific evidence is found for Bible stories, the more believable they are. This could provide strength for the arguments of religious people defending their religion, and might cause atheists to think twice about the "division" between science and religion.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111208-dead-sea-bible-biblical-salt-dry-science/?source=link_fb20111211news-deadseadisasterrecord
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