Bible Versus Quran Versus Sciences, (53) Statistics
Bible Versus Quran Versus Sciences, (53) Statistics
Statistics (sta•tis•tics) is a noun that can be used with a singular or plural verb.
Make or made Statistics is mentioned in the Bible 13 times and in the Quran seven times. However, Make or made Statistics is translated to the English Bible’s versions and or Quran as Number, numbered, Count and Counted. Number, numbered, Count and Counted are mentioned in the Bible 339 times and in the Quran nine times.
The word statistics is derived from the Latin term statisticum collegium (“council of state”) and the Italian word statista (“statesman”). The German “Statistik”, has first introduced by G. Achenwall (1749), initially designated the analysis of data about the state, signifying the “science of state” (then named political arithmetic in English). It acquired the meaning of the collection and classification of data generally in the early 19th century. It was introduced into English by Sir J. Sinclair.
Thus, the original main reason of Statistik was data to be used by governmental and administrative bodies. The collection of data about states and localities maintains, principally through national and international statistical services. In particular, censuses give regular information about the population.
In short, Statistics are Data that can be represented numerically
Statistics is an important mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation, explanation, and presentation of data. Statistics are also used for making knowledgeable decisions.
Statisticians usually collect random variables and calculate their mean, median, standard deviation, standard error of mean, probability distributions etc.
Sometimes, the outcomes of the statistical procedures are the uncertainty in the observations and failure of making informed decisions.
Statistics in the Bible:
The Lord commanded Moses to sum and number the people
Numbers 1:2
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
Saul counted and numbered 600 men
1 Samuel 13:15
…and Saul counted the men who were with him. They numbered about six hundred.
David numbered the people
2 Samuel 18:1
And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds over them.
It is a great sin and a very foolish deed to number the people.
The Lord commanded David to number the people and David did. But, David’s heart smote him. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done. However, this great sin deserves a great punishment. God love offered David three punishment’s option to choose. David chose the most merciful one which was killing of seventy thousand innocent men.
2 Samuel 24:1-17
1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2 For the king said to Joab .. Go now .. and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
3 … And Joab and the captains of the host went out … to number the people of Israel.
9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: ….
10 And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by