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Actually, our understanding of physics is already in the Bible. If Renaissance thinkers had bothered to read Isaiah, they would have noticed that God said that He holds up the "sphere of the earth" -- completely debunking that flat earth theory. It is said that Columbus took out his ships upon that scripture alone. Another interesting thing is that the Book of Revelation says that in the new heaven, the streets are made of pure gold, transparent as glass. Well it was only in the last few decades that we found out that if you purify gold to its most pure state -- the yellow in gold is actually an impurity -- white gold is actually purer than yellow gold -- purified gold is transparent.

I've been waiting for you to come up with the Columbus thing. You've come up with many of the other sillier creationist canards so it was only a matter of time.

Educated men the world over knew long before the Columbus that the world not flat. Anyone living near the sea can see this easily. The ancient Greeks calculated the size of the sphere to a reasonable degree of accuracy. Columbus was badly wrong about the size of the globe, despite the availability of techniques for calculating it; he hoped to reach China, and would have starved with his crew long before getting there. Luckily for him the Americas got in the way. I'm not familiar with the Isaiah passage that you refer to, though I've seen references to an Isaiah passage that refer to a circle, a completely different thing from a globe. Numerous other biblical passages are consonant with belief in a flat earth. For example Satan takes Christ to the top of a high mountain and shows him all the kingdoms of the world. Not possible on a sphere. Indeed the Bible gives no clue of the scale of the world at all. Outside a small area of the middle east nothing really seems to exist at all in it.

Purified gold is not transparent. That is simply nonsense that someone has fed you. Sorry to disappoint you.

So I'd say that the Bible is pretty much ahead of the ball on physics and science.

Um no, its full of scientific error. Like references to stars "falling to earth". And bats referred to as a kind of bird.