Thursday, December 11, 2008
Scientific errors of the Bible, by Noémie Cournoyer
1. Genetics by Jacob
This passage from Genesis implies that a visual stimulus can impair fetal development, in a manner consistent with the nature of stimulus.
Background
WORK hard for his father-in-law Laban, Jacob offered to withdraw its flocks each beast is not a white. These animals had a lesser value, and Jacob proposes to retain as salary. His dishonest stepfather, however, withdraw spotted cattle herd, Jacob depriving a salary.
But clever, Jacob finds a way to take revenge. It ensures that most animals are born with spots, so you can keep him.
The passage: Genesis 30, verses 30 to 43
(We use here the Sower. Emphasis added.)
30 For you had very little to my arrival, but your property have increased significantly. The Lord blessed you since I'm home. But now it is time that I worked also for my own family.
31 Laban asked, "What should I pay you?"
"You shall have to pay me anything," said Jacob. But if you accept my proposal, I will continue to graze your herds and occupy myself. 32 If you want, I will today examine your flock, I will share all the animals striped or spotted and all lambs dark, and all striped and spotted goats. They will be my salary. 33 Thus it will be easy to control my honesty. Tomorrow you come inspect my salary: If you find me in a goat that is not striped or spotted, or a lamb that is not dark, you can consider them as stolen."
34 Laban said, "Okay! Do as you said."
35 But the same day, Laban retired herd the goats spotted and striped, all mottled or striped goats, all that was involved in white and all lambs dark, and he delivered into the hands of his son. 36 Then he put a distance of three days of walking between him and Jacob, who continued to deal with the rest of his herd.
37 Jacob obtains green shoots of poplar, almond and pela tree and the bark in places, revealing the white sap of the branches. 38 He placed these branches under the eyes of sheep in troughs and troughs where they were drinking and they came hot from drinking. 39 The animals mating at these branches. When they put down their grandchildren were spotted, striped and marquetry.
40 Jacob sheep and goats that it reserved the face of animals from the herd of Laban that were mottled and dark. It is thus flocks to him, he does not mixed with those of Laban [e]. 41 Whenever beasts vigorous mating, Jacob placed the branches under their eyes in the troughs to mate before the branches.
42 When sheep were stunted, it does not provide. Thus the stunted animals Laban returned to the robust and Jacob. 43 In this way, the latter considerably enriched, it has many flocks of maids and servants, camels and donkeys.
The scientific error
To increase his flock, Jacob employs a strange technique. He put a surface line and spotted (branches) in front of the ewes in heat. When small born, they are also lined or spotted.
Jacob also employs a form of natural selection. When the sheep are too frail, he does not have branches. His stepfather is therefore with sheep immaculate, but weak.
2. Bible, flat earth and geocentric
Several passages of the Bible contend that the earth is flat and the sun revolves around. Fantasies made by the translators have tried to erase the errors scientists who attended the original text but still not in conformity with science.
Flat earth
In Job 38:12-13:
Did you one day of your life, ordered the morning and assigned its place in the morning to take up the ends of the earth and it shook the wicked * [a]? So the earth is turned as clay under the impression [b], and all things are trimmed as a garment.
How can we take a sphere from the ends? And how a spheres can be formed by the borrows? " This is not a sphere that would be manufactured as well, but a flat disc.
In Daniel 4:10-11 refers to a tree so great that since its peak you can see the entire surface of the earth:
Here are the visions of my mind while I was on my coat. I looked, and behold, there was in the middle of the earth a tree of great height. This tree had become big and strong, his top amounted to heaven, and we saw all ends of the earth.
This description is not consistent with a spherical earth. If the earth is a sphere, then we can not see any surface from a single high point.
A further passage is speaking in Isaiah 40:22:
It was him who sits above the circle of the earth, And those who live there are like locusts; It extends the heavens as a fabric lightly, he deploys as a tent, into his home.
This verse gives us a good idea to the cosmology of the ancient Hebrew. The earth is a flat disc. The sky forms a sort of extended dome above the disk as a tent. "
Biblical geocentric
To demonstrate that the Bible is geocentric, it must achieve:
Show that according to the bible earth does not move (... and yet it runs, like said Galilee!)
Show that according to the bible the sun revolves around the earth.
Many verses to support one or other of these blunders scientists, or both.
For the motionless earth, found in 1 Chronicles 16:30: "You, people around the world, fear in front of his face! The world is strong, it is not shaken." (Trad. Sower)
Similarly, in Job 38:4-6:
Where were you when I put foundations of the world? Declare it, because your science is so deep! Who hath laid the measures, do you? Who tight on him the line of surveyor? In what the core columns they sink? Who put the main stone, the cornerstone?
We speak in this passage foundations of the world, columns that hold the earth!
Regarding the sun around the earth, is the glut of skeptics that famous passage in Joshua 10:12-13 (we use here translation Louis Segond):
Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, the day the Lord gave the Amorites the children of Israel, and he said in the presence of Israel: Sun, lays out what Gabaon And you, moon, on the valley of Ajalon! And so the sun and the moon suspended its course, until the nation had fired revenge of his enemies. This is not written in the Book Fair? The sun stopped in the middle of heaven, And do hastened to lie down, almost an entire day.
The sun revolves around the earth, and is it compared to the moon.
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