Concerning this question...
"What flaws are there in the BIBLE? ex.where are the dinosaurs?
"If you look hard enough you'll find many places where the Bible is scientifically accurate. I'm not a science-y person, but even I can find places (like in Psalm 8:8, when the author talks about "the paths of the sea" - ocean currents)."
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I'll have to agree that's stretching a bit. That's not to say they didn't know about ocean currents (people have been doing long distance travel by ocean for quite some time), but that seems an overly specific interpretation for that passage.
Other than that, the Bible is not a science book -- nor was it intended to be. The science in the Bible is what the writers knew at the time. Their knowledge was intuitive. Intuition isn't magic, some things you can usually trust your intuition on but science isn't one of those; we had to work hard to know what we know now.
Well, it doesn´t matter if there are parts in the bible that are scientifically accurate (and I assume that it isn´t too far fetched to think that major seafaring nations during the time the psalms were made knew about ocean currents).
Considering the fact that christian fundamentalists always claim the bible to be the absolute true and genuine word of god, even a single flaw in the bible is sufficient to disprove the christian fundamentalists ;)
Green poplar sticks at the watering holes of sheep, cattle and goats, so that they can reproduce spotted and speckled offspring. (Genetics fail)(Genesis 30)
Flat earth. (Isa. 11:12 Rev. 7:1)(Just fail)
Should I go on?
You're fitting the Bible into science. Look even if the Bible had a passage that seemed to describe ocean currents, does that mean the authors of the Bible had a supernatural knowledge of how the Earth works that was thousands of years ahead of contemporary science?
"If you look hard enough you'll find many places where the Bible is scientifically accurate. (emphasis mine)
Here's what Augustine said back in the fourth century:
"It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian.
It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided , that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are."
Yes, but all this 'science' you find in the Bible was stuff we found AFTER we already discovered it through the scientific method. It does us no good, and it's mostly a matter of interpretation.
"the paths of the sea" is more likely to mean "trade routes taken by old-school merchants"
Next thing you know, The Big Bang will be the same as god saying, "Let there be light..."
/sarcasm, although I wouldn't be surprised if some fundy tried to say it...
If you really look hard enough you can see the pixels in the printing. Then the pixels look like little planets, then they become hugh and become the universe, but then the drugs wear off and your bummed.
My solution would be to take more drugs... :P
f you look hard enough you'll find many places where the Bible is scientifically accurate
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! That's a good one. Have you ever considered a carreer as a standup comic?
I'm not a science-y person,
As if that wasn't obvious enough.
but even I can find places (like in Psalm 8:8, when the author talks about "the paths of the sea" - ocean currents)."
You don't not, and cannot know whether or not Psalms 8:8 was actually talking about ocean currents as we understand them, or if it was just speaking of shiping routes. You see it that way because you want to think that they were talking about ocean currents.
"What flaws are there in the BIBLE?"
Plenty:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html
"where are the dinosaurs?"
They became extinct 65 million years ago. The Bible doesn't mention them. Fossils say otherwise. Now what does this tell you?
"If you look hard enough you'll find many places where the Bible is scientifically accurate"
Ah, so Pi=3, eh? And insects have four legs, bats lay eggs, and rabbits chew the cud? Wow, that's a mathematically & biologically correct Bible.
"I'm not a science-y person"
Now where could we have gotten that idea?!</sarcasm>
Hi Curiosity Strikes - I am a translator of (very) ancient texts and runes. Since I have only been doing this for the last 67 years (I'm 85 BTW) and lecture at 16 universities around this planet, so I'm not as qualified as you.
Apropos of nothing, the BBC web site has a "Do you know your bible references?" quick quiz (bbc.co.uk) .
Should I be embarrassed that I managed 10/10 without resorting to Google?
(like in Psalm 8:8, when the author talks about "the paths of the sea" - ocean currents)
And in Leviticus 14 it says you can cure a leper by using birds, sheep, and some wood! Yeah, who needs all that modern medicine anyway?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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