anthrosciguy

So what were the Bible's authors trying to say? Were they talking about bats then, even though in the passages around that one they talk specifically about insects? What creeping crawling things that fly and go about on 4 feet were they talking about? They exempt several insects, and then reiterate that you can't eat the ones which fly and go about on 4 legs.

figuer

Seems that you are intent in continuing the campaign of irrelevancy. Zoological misinformation is the lesser example of the Bible's unscientific nature.It would be the "obvious truth" to a Hebrew scholar, not to the King James Bible fundamentalists.The first sentence represents an incoherent thought process, and no, it would be in the name of religious freedom as a protection from fundamentalists who claim their mythology is a fact, not in the name of science.

David Henson

Oh! I see! Its God's fault. Never heard that one before, that is impressive. Those Bronze age goat herders were clever little rascals, eh?

David Henson

You people know almost absolutely nothing about the Bible, don't you?

skepticalbip

This looks like a straw man. What Bible critic has ever made this claim? What I see as Bible criticism is in the general claims made not nit-picking such trivialities. - The creation myth given in the Bible, for example or the flood story. Evidence is that both are simply mythic tales like the mythic tales incorporated in all religions to "explain" origins and disasters.

temporalillusion

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=NQAP5FHvgbE

So when a locust jumps using it's hind legs, it's "going by twos", is it loathsome at that point? Can we eat a locust when its jumping? :grin:

(Note, this is for teh funnies, not serious, mostly because I thought the locusts looked very funny in that video).

lpetrich

Why are you claiming that I'm saying that it's God's fault?

And if something is badly written, it is badly written, and no amount of whining can change that.

What do you think is the real story behind all these food restrictions?

Mike Elphick

You obviously DO know a lot about the Bible, but you know nothing about evolution, which you think is akin to stories from "Alice in Wonderland".

It seems you got the idea to start this thread from an article at Answers in Genesis, posted January 26.

What I find interesting is that, by the time of Leviticus (a few hundred years after the flood), the locust 'kind' had already speciated. So had the owl 'kind' into the short-eared owl; the little owl; the fisher owl; the screech owl; and the white owl - all incidentally still called 'kinds'. How do you explain that?

Mike Elphick

^^^^
DLH can't answer. I put it to him that members of the original created 'insect kind' had only four legs and that through mutations they later developed two extra legs. This seems to meet creation biology theory.
In the name of science? Do you know any science?

Schneibster

First and foremost, they'd be "inquads." Or whatever the correct latin thingie is.