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I presume this is your question...
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" [IF] it turns out that there is profound scientific truths in the Bible, how would you explain it. Would you consider it as a coincidence, lucky guess, or something that was given to these people by some smarter humans/beings/entities/aliens/gods?"

It all depends on the "profound scientific proof" you are talking about.
It also depends on the "If it turns out that" part.

I have reviewed the first two verses of Genesis and I cannot see anything that couldn't have been written by any Neolithic tribesman with a lyrical bent who possessed absolutely no knowledge we would call scientific. They make grammatical sense, and are part of a meaningful narrative, but they carry no verifiable information content. They are descriptive lines, of great elegance and grace, but they are just words strung together one after another.

So now you tell me. Just what are you talking about? You are asking me to come up with an explanation of something I cannot see, in the event I could see it. Is this some kind of trick question?

And by the way, if you proceed to the third verse, you see that this cosmology has God creating heaven and earth first, then the waters, and THEN light. I may be mistaken, but I don't think it happened in that order. In the modern scientific explanation, light came first.

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