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Debunking Christian Circular Arguments and Assumptions
Argument #
5: The
Bible is the word of God because it agrees with science and contains
scientific
facts.
Sometimes,
Christians try to
support their argument that the Bible is inspired by God by using the
argument
that the Bible agrees with Science! Some of the scientific
facts that
Christians claim the Bible contain include a statement about the human
body in
Leviticus
Nevertheless, those
verses
do
not invalidate the verses below that prove the opposite. Here
are some
FALSE scientific facts in the "inerrant" Bible. How can an
inerrant and infallible Bible have FALSE scientific facts such as
these?
Christians may try
to claim
that the verses below are only metaphors and not to be taken
literally.
However, if that’s so, why can’t we also take their
cherished theological
doctrines such as the Salvation, Atonement, and Crucifixion and claim
that
those are metaphors too?
False scientific
facts in
the Bible
Insects do not
have four
feet
Lev
upon
all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the
earth;
Lev
the
bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the
grasshopper
after his kind.
Lev
shall
be an abomination unto you.
They have
six. In
fact,
NOTHING that can fly has four feet.
Rabbits do not
chew their
cud
Lev
11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth
the cud, but divideth
not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
They only appear
to, due to
mistaken human perception. How could an all knowing God not
know this?
Snakes, while
built low,
do not eat dirt nor dust
Genesis
3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, thou
art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon
thy belly
shalt
thou go, and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life:
The bat is not a
bird
Lev
detestable:
the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
Lev
Deu
Deu
Deu
The bat is in fact
a flying
mammal.
Snails do not
melt
Psalm
58:8 As a snail which melteth,
let every one of them
pass away: like
the
untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
The Earth is not
flat
Yet these verses
indicate
that the Earth must either be flat, square or rectangle!
Isaiah
Revelation
7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the
four corners of
the earth, holding the four
winds of the earth, that the wind should not
blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
How can the Earth
have four
corners if it's sphere-shaped? Four corners indicate either a
flat,
square or rectangular structure!
Likewise, notice
the
structural disposition of the Earth assumed by these verses.
Psalms
67:7 God will bless us, and all
the ends of the earth will fear
him.
Psalms
135:7 He makes clouds rise from the
ends of the earth; he
sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his
storehouses.
Proverbs
30:4 Who has gone up to heaven and come
down? Who has
gathered up the wind in the hollow of his hands? Who has
wrapped up the
waters in his cloak? Who has established all
the ends of the
earth? What is his
name, and the name of his son? Tell me
if you know!
Isaiah
40:28 Do you not know? Have you not
heard? The LORD is the everlasting
God, the Creator of the ends
of the earth.
Isaiah
41:9 I took you from the
ends of the earth, from its
farthest corners I called you. I said, 'You are my
servant'; I have
chosen you and have not rejected you.
Isaiah
Daniel
4:10-11 These are the visions I saw while lying in my bed: I looked,
and there
before
me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous. The
tree
grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the
ends of the earth.
Zechariah
Mark
13:26-27 At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with
great
power and glory. And he will send his angels and gather his
elect from
the four winds, from the ends
of the earth to the ends of the
heavens.
Romans
How can a round
sphere have
"ends"? Also, in regard to Psalm 135:7, winds do not come
from
storehouses! So much for Biblical meteorology. And
from Daniel
4:10-11, how can a tree be tall enough to touch the sky? Did
the infallible
Bible writers think that the sky had a roof? Also from Daniel:
Daniel
No matter how tall
that tree
is,
there's no way it could be seen to the “ends of the
Earth” on a spherical
body! Likewise,
Isaiah
18:3 All you people of the world, you who live on
the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it,
and when a
trumpet sounds, you will hear it.
Matthew
4:8 Again, the devil taketh
him up into an exceeding
high mountain,
and
sheweth
him all the kingdoms of the world, and the
glory of them;
Luke
4:5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant
all the
kingdoms of the world.
Since astronomical
bodies
are
spherical, you cannot see the entire exterior surface from anyplace on
it,
therefore you could not technically see "all the kingdoms of the
world" from one point!
Next,
Proverbs
Zechariah
12:1 This is the word of the LORD concerning
A foundation
structurally
implies building a basement to the ground first to lay the rest above
it!
Similarly,
Psalms
75:3 When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who
hold its
pillars firm.
I guess the
foundation of
the
world has pillars holding it up too?
Of course, in
defense
Christians will try to claim that these verses are only metaphors or
allegorical, and not to be taken literally. But why
don’t they take all
the verses of their cherished fundamental doctrines and do the same as
well? How do they decide what is allegorical and what is
literal?
And why should we trust their judgment on that?
The Earth is not
motionless
Psalms
104:5 The Earth is firmly fixed; it shall not be moved.
1
Chronicles
The Earth is moving
constantly 24 hours a day in its path around the Sun!
The moon is not
a light
Genesis
the
lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
The moon is not a
light. You can only see it glow only because of the sun's
reflection off
of it. During some of its phases, you can't even see it at
all.
Our sun is not
the same
age as the rest of the stars
Genesis
the
lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Scientists have
observed and
dated many of the stars in the universe to be millions or even billions
of
years older than our sun.
Stars are not
little balls
of light close to the Earth
Revelation
6:12-14
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a
great
earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon
became
as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig
tree casteth
her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty
wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together;
and every
mountain and island were moved out of their places.
The Bible authors
obviously
thought that the stars were little balls of light that could fall to
the
Earth. They had no idea how big and how far away the stars
actually are!
Wind is not held
in
storehouses
Psalms
135:7 He makes clouds rise from the ends of the
earth; he sends
lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
Anyone with even an
elementary knowledge of meteorology or basic science can tell you that
wind is
not produced from “storehouses”!
How can an inerrant
book
inspired by an all-knowing God make false scientific facts such as
these?
Now, they can argue
that the
false scientific facts in the Bible cited above are based on an overly
literal
interpretation of the verses, but again, who is to decide what is
literal,
metaphorical, or allegorical? After all, Christians
can’t even agree amongst
themselves as to which of the prophecies of the book of Revelation to
take
literally, which to take allegorically, and which to take as a little
of
each! And why can’t they see their cherished
doctrines of sin, salvation,
atonement, etc. as allegorical too? Nevertheless, these
verses
demonstrate that the Bible is not inerrant, which shatters the absolute
unquestionable authority of it that Evangelists hope to
foster.
Furthermore, there
are
mathematical mistakes in the Bible as well. See Mathematical
Errors in the
Bible.
To see a long list
of
discrepancies, scientific implausibilities,
and
unanswered questions about the global flood described in Genesis,
see: http://www.skepticfiles.org/evo2/noahprob.htm
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