Do any of the texts in the Bible contradict scientific principles?
No. The problem is lack of understanding of the Bible and inadequate understanding of what can or cannot be done. If you don’t fully understand the Bible or science, it might seem that way. Example: Moses heard God’s voice coming from a bush. There many ways that even humans can accomplish that now. It seemed to be impossible, only because humans didn’t understand science well enough at that time. Wireless technology would have been thought to be against scientific principles 1000 years ago. It just depends on how advanced your scientific discovery is. Otherwise, we should stop researching. The point is, things which were formerly impossible because they defied science are now common. The key is understanding both the Bible and science, and understanding that science is still advancing.
Well, yes…and we refer to them as miracles. There are any number of instances recorded where God overrides scientific principles for his own purposes and does something scientifically impossible. But that, I don’t think, is what you are asking about. The Bible does on occasion speak of matters of the operation of the world, and there it does not contradict scientific priniciples. It does contradict naturalistic/materialistic biases and presuppositions which frequently masquerade as science. The Bible can for example speak of the sun rising and setting the same as we do, without demanding a geocentric or heliocentric cosmology; it is speaking from the reference point of the Earth. The Bible can even be “ahead of the curve”.
That would depend entirely on how your interpret it. An inflexible and obtuse literalism with no appreciation of poetry, panegyric, genre, hyperbole, idioms, and the like can produce a number of absurdities. But miracles in and of themselves don’t contradict “scientific principles” since miracles are by definition beyond the reach of the material sciences. The material sciences deal only with natural (and repeatable) processes. A miracle is an unprecedented and sovereign act of God. If God is God there is no scientific reason why He could not do such things; in fact God ought to be able to do such things. So the question is not whether God could do such things, but whether He would, and that’s a question for theologians and philosophers, not scientists.
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