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Originally posted by wesmac:
About your claim that the Bible contains scientific errors...specifically the part where you claim that it says insects have four legs. I'm glad to see that a believer of evolution is reading the Bible but you need a lesson in understanding transitional thoughts. That verse does not say that insects have four legs. God gave man permission to eat of four legged creatures and then in the "next thought" gave them permission to eat locusts. If that's the best you've got then your argument is weak.
Tell me how old testament scripture says that God "hangeth the world upon nothing"? This was not the accepted (or even suggested)scientific or religious view of the world at that time.
Let’s see what Leviticus actually says in the creationists favorite the KJV:
11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
11:23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
Sure sounds to me like it’s talking about four legged insects. Just what are those flying creeping things with four feet you can eat and those other flying creeping things which have four feet that are abomination to you? Your statement above makes me wonder if you have ever read these passages yourself. BTW locusts are grasshoppers, they are not different "kinds".
The old testament also says the following:
1 Chronicles 16:30: Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
Psalm 93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved.
Psalm 96:10: Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously....
Psalm 104:5: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Are you a geocentrist? Do you believe that the earth is fixed and immovable?
Randy