: The fact that much of the Bible'smore literal claims are false (or improbable to the point of being nearly impossible) can be nothing but obvious to anyone objective.The people you are talking about piss me of too and I'd say I find the bible and christianity pretty inspirational.
:Witness the myth of Joshua stopping the earth in its orbit,
I think physicists have actually accounted for this missing day. It happened.
:the six-day creation,
Well what's a day to God you know? This big being who exists outside of time as we know it, why should he work within our choosen schedule of 24hr days?
Anyway it's all symbolic sure the author's even using rehotric used in other beginning of time fables, pagan ones, EG God speaks as "we" and fears mans acquiral of knowledge (which is obviously crap!).
:simultaneous creation,
I dont know what that is.
:the denial of evolution,
Now that fucks me off, it really, really does evolution is entirely consistant with God as a creator intervening to create material progress in species.
That really annoys me, what good does denying this do? None. But what harm does it do? Lots it allows a whole superstitiousness to re-emerge so that science is seen as evil and Galileo style conflicts emerge.
:the missing Cain's wife, etc.
Dont know this one either, sorry, not all that clued in.
:It is clear that much of the Bible, at least, was written by fallible, mistaken humans.
Yes, you'd think it was all to be taken literally, some of it doubtlessly is but not it all, these people where writting form a particular period in time etc. God wasnt the only influence on them, just as he isnt the only influence on people now.
:So let me ask:
: "Why do those who claim Biblical inerrancy sumbit so willingly to their deluders?"
Good question, if someones wrong I point it out.
