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Title: "Science" |
Description: Six objection sets titled Mathematics, False Science, Geography, Flood, Creationism, Biblical Day. The latter three topics are outside of our purview and will not be addressed at this time. The tone is set by our subject in describing the Bible as "a veritable miasma of poor science, bad math, and inaccurate geography, all with a heavy overlay of mythology and folklore." [209] The introduction also repeats some previous arguments about the use of imprecise numbers.
Mathematics
4. 1 Kings 7:23
10. Ez. 2:3-64
11. Num. 3:17-39 .
False Science
1. Lev. 11:19
2. Lev. 11:20-1
3. Lev. 11:23
4. Lev. 11:6
5. Deut. 14:7
6. Gen. 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Dismissed, like all miracles, as unscientific and therefore impossible. Let it only be noted that it is only insufferable arrogance that presumes that the topic of the miraculous, which has been discussed by intelligent philosphers over thousands of years, can be dealt with so cavilierly.
7. Gen. 30:37-9
8. 2 Pet. 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Simple denigration of the miraculous; answer same as #6 above.
11. Gen. 11:6-9. The Tower of Babel incident; again mere denigration of the miraculous.
12. John 12:24
13. Is. 11:12,
etc
14. Mark
16:18
15. Matt. 13:31-2
16. Deut. 32:11
17. Lev. 13:9-13
18. Luke 1:44
19. 2 Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
The usual litany against miracles is offered; the answer is the same as above.
20. Lev. 11:21
21. Gen. 3:16. Usual litany against miracles, and original sin, which we shall refer to in another chapter.
Geography
1. Matt. 2:1-2
2. Matthew
4:8
3. Matt. 19:1
4. John 12:21.
5. Mark 5:1
8. Gen. 2:10-14. An objection to the accuracy of pre-Flood geography, which is rather silly, since if the Flood is true, obviously geography would have been markedly different prior to it!
9. Acts 1:12
10. Acts 22:8
11. Mark
7:31
12. Ex. 14:9
13. 1 Kings 17:3
14. 1 Kings 9:26
15. Josh. 1:3-4
16-19 .
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