The Inerrancy of the Bible

You really missed the point didn't you?

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My last line.
IMO, since translations are made to be understood by the reader, it is incorrect for any Bible translation to use the words bird or fowl (since they have specific meanings today) if "flying creatures" is available.

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The words "bird" and "fowl" in our language do not include all flying creatures.The Hebrew word apparently has a generic meaning "flying creatures", therefore it should have been translated as flying creatures since we don't have a word (that I know of anyway) that would include bats and birds in the same category.At the time the KJV was first released in 1611, they still didn't know that bats weren't birds.The KJV has been revised to update spelling and language throughout the years, there is no excuse for this word not to have been properly updated.Just as it would be an error to leave a mispelled word, it is an error to leave an incorrect word.Just like Lucifer for morning star and Easter for Passover.

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A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

Unfortunately your answer doesn't make sense given what was written. The Areopagus is both a small rocky hill, adjacent to the Acropolis, and a Council with certain judicial functions which met there. I find it interesting that neither the Greek nor the Latin use Mars' hill. The scenerio described seems to mean the council as apposed to the hill itself.Did the name Mars Hill apply to the council also? I see no evidence that it was called the council of Mars Hill.Since neither the Greek nor the Latin use the term Mars' Hill, I find it odd that a group of presumably English scholars in 1611 would choose the Roman name for the Hill to describe the council.Is verse 22 refering to the hill itself for the council. IMO, it is the council.

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A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.