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Originally posted by Hawkingfan
I'll answer this here. But since it falls under Biblical Criticism, if you want to post a reply, start a thread in BC.
There are many scientific absurdities and scientifically incorrect information, but I'll just post a few as compiled by Donald Morgan at the Secular Web modern library:
GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness.
GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.
GE 1:3-5, 14-19 There was light ("night and day") before there was a sun. (Note: If there were no sun, there would be no night or day. Also, light from the newly created heavenly bodies seems to have reached the earth instantaneously though it now takes thousands or millions of years.)
GE 1:12, 16 Plants began to grow before there was sunlight.
GE 1:29 Every plant and tree which yield seed are given to us by God as good to eat. (Note: This would include poisonous plants such as hemlock, buckeye pod, nightshade, oleander.)
LE 11:20-21 There are winged creatures (birds or insects) that go around on all fours. (Note: There are no birds that go around on four legs, and all insects have six legs.)
LE 11:6 (States, incorrectly, that the rabbit, or hare, chews its cud.)
PS 121:6 It is apparently possible to suffer moonstroke as well as sunstroke.
DN 4:11 Daniel dreams of a tree so tall that it can be seen to the ends of the earth. (Note: Disregarding the fact that the tallest known trees cannot achieve such a great height and that this was a dream, this statement implies a flat earth. Because a tree could grow to an infinite height on a sphere (which the earth is), but people on the other side of it would never see it.)
MT 4:8 There is a high mountain from which all the kingdoms of the world can be seen. (Note: This implies a flat earth also.)
And as far as your question of inconsistencies please explain:
GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created.
GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.
GE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created.
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.
GE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created.
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.
GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time.
GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.
And as far as atrocities go, there's hundreds. But here's a couple:
Deuteronomy 22:28--"If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty sheckels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives."
EX 21:20-21 With the Lord's approval, a slave may be beaten to death with no punishment for the perpetrator as long as the slave doesn't die too quickly.
Let me know if you want to continue this in Biblical Criticism.
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These are excellent examples of Biblical insistencies, contradictions, and frank errors (absense of the circle constant Pi or ð in Solomon's Pool. It was perfectly round, 10 cubits across and 30 cubits around. God and is prophet didn't know about Pi X D = C). There are many others confirming a flat Earth. Also we have as you mentioned the moral depravity of most of the Old Testament books. Deuteronomy also has two accounts of God ordered unprovoked attack on Bashon and Heshbon, two city kingdoms, slaying men, women, children, and babies.
The Bible is usually black in colour, which appropriate for a book that is not only badly written, erroneous, contradictory, but darkly evil.
Fiach
03-05-2003, 05:42 PM
