Hi,
I was raised atheisitcally and have come to believe there must be some God (or divine Someone) only a few years ago, so I'm speaking from a different perspective than that of a christian who finds contradictions in the Bible.
I was always sceptical of what is said in the Bible and I believe modern scientific discoveries to be correct. I, too, have been looking into how this can all be compromised - like, if we can't trust part of the Bible, how can we trust anything in it?
What I think, is that God din't write the Bible, and nor did Jesus Christ. The Bible was written by humans that lived centuries or even millennia after the date the things they described happened. Further, they hdn't yet discovered the things we have now - Darwin, Einstein and other great scientists hadn't been born for centuries.
People have always used mystical expanations for things they didn't understand, and these may later have been dicsovered to be incorrect.
This in itself, however, does not mean that we can trust nothing that's been said in the Bible. The Bible does contain great information about Christ's life and about the Word of God. It also contains explanations of things, which we have later come to question or even falsify.
God, for sure, does not contradict Himself. Nor does He contradict science. A statement I read someplace, which I really loved, is that, through scientific and other discoveries, we will come to understand God and the way he created the Universe with all its natural laws.
I still am pretty sceptical of what is said in the Bible - and I think I'll remain sceptical of it. The Bible was written in a time when humans knew much less than we do now, so some parts of it may be very worthy, but others are flawed - the people that lived t the time simply didn't know what we know now.
Astrid