It is what the Bible says. The Bible also says that the Earth is the center of the Universe, which is supported on pillars. It makes no mention of anything like dinosaurs, but does mention two seven-headed dragons, Leviathan and Rahab, respectively. It also makes no mention of the existence of North and South America, or that the Pyramids were there, as they were there long before the Bible was even written.
The people of the Patriarchs' day are described with completely anachronistic caravan cultures, and the armor Goliath wears is not that of contemporary Palestinian culture but actually that of the Greek hoplites, which did not themselves exist to that degree at the time.
The Bible also identifies bats as birds, claims insects have four legs, claims rabbits chew cud, attributes to the Israelites in Egypt numbers far greater than lived in the entire Levantine region at the time, to the point that even thousands of years later 1 million people wandering the Wilderness would in fact leave traces, particularly in the arid Sinai peninsula. And most importantly the Bible credits Israel and Judah both with armies far larger than those possessed by the Assyrian Empire when that was the first great Mediterranean Empire.
The Bible has no legs to stand on historically or scientifically.
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Date: 2011-02-14 05:06 pm (UTC)It is what the Bible says. The Bible also says that the Earth is the center of the Universe, which is supported on pillars. It makes no mention of anything like dinosaurs, but does mention two seven-headed dragons, Leviathan and Rahab, respectively. It also makes no mention of the existence of North and South America, or that the Pyramids were there, as they were there long before the Bible was even written.
The people of the Patriarchs' day are described with completely anachronistic caravan cultures, and the armor Goliath wears is not that of contemporary Palestinian culture but actually that of the Greek hoplites, which did not themselves exist to that degree at the time.
The Bible also identifies bats as birds, claims insects have four legs, claims rabbits chew cud, attributes to the Israelites in Egypt numbers far greater than lived in the entire Levantine region at the time, to the point that even thousands of years later 1 million people wandering the Wilderness would in fact leave traces, particularly in the arid Sinai peninsula. And most importantly the Bible credits Israel and Judah both with armies far larger than those possessed by the Assyrian Empire when that was the first great Mediterranean Empire.
The Bible has no legs to stand on historically or scientifically.