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Major Scientific Errors in the Bible
The science in the bible are contradicted by science today, this occurs in hundreds of places in the bible, below are just a few example to prevent this document becoming lengthy.
a) The Ritual for Cleansing Healed Lepers
This is how you heal the leper according to the bible. Does this make sense?
Leviticus 14 New King James Version (NKJV): Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest. And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and indeed, if the leprosy is healed in the leper, then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose in the open field.
b) This is how you test for adultery in the bible
The below reference shows how to test if a wife has committed adultery, the test does not refer to men at all, which is unfair, as men can commit adultery too.
Numbers 5:11-31: ‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord.Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse. Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
The test for adultery is you get some water and put some dust into it from the ground then the priest curses the test and then you make the adulterer drink this water if he or she has committed adultery then she will miscarry and never be able to have children. We know this does not work. Is God this illogical and naive to place this in his book?
c) The poison test
Mark 16:17 “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
1) Now this verse is very interesting, firstly Mark 16:9-20 was thrown out in the RSV 1952 version, then had been reintroduced back into the RSV 1971 version nearly 20 years later due to certain denominations complaining. Once again an example of man tampering with the verses of Jesus and picking and choosing as they please. For centuries these last few verses of Mark existed.
2) For those who believe in this version of the bible, do you think no matter how strong your faith is you will survive drinking poison? Would you dare to put yourself to the test?
3) And for those that believe according to this verse they can speak new languages as a result of just believing? Is this actually believable, we all know some Christians who are very practicing, monks, celibate sisters etc, can we say these people now have powers to speak multiple languages or drink poison and survive?
4) And to add further, if this verse was correct, it is very contradictory to the previous verse we touched on where Jesus says those who cast out devils in his name are evil, yet this verse is saying to the reader to cast out devils in Jesus’ name.
Personally as muslims we do not believe Jesus would cause contradiction, and we do not believe Jesus would make such a claim regarding poison and foreign tongues and our Jesus is smarter and wiser than all.
d) Some more without verses due to the length of this document-
1. God said after flooding the world and saving Noah that I have put up a rainbow in the sky to show that I will never submerge the world in water again (so this means there were no such things as rainbows before the flood yet this breaks the laws of lights refraction)
2. Bible says hare is a curd chewer (zoology says the hare is not a curd chewer)
3. Bible says the ant has no ruler (yet we all know there is a queen and classes of ants)
4. Bible says serpents eat dust (zoology and everybody say serpents eat other animals)
5. Bibles says insects have four feet (everyone knows insects have 6 feet)
6. Bible says earth does not move (yet science says earth rotates and orbits the sun)
7. Earth is about 6000 years old, as calculated from the genealogies in Gen and Luke 3.
8. Birds were created before land animals (Gen 1:20, 24). - Fossil record shows exact opposite
9. Earth has four corners, and floats on water (Isa 11:12, Ps 24:2, 136:6, Rev 7:1).
10. Earth is a circular disk (Isa 40:22).
11. Earth is flat (these verses were used for centuries by the church to prove this: Ps 93:1, Jer 10:13, Dan 4:10-11, Zech 9:10, Matt 4:8, Rev 1:7)
12. Earth does not move (Ps 93:1, 96:10, 104:5, 1 Chr 16:30).
13. Death or illness is caused by sin (Gen 2:17, Lev 26:16, 21, 25, Deut 7:15, 28:21, 27, James 1:15).
14. Seed must "die" before it grows (John 12:24, 1 Cor 15:36).
15. Snakes eat dust (Gen 3:14, Isa 65:25).
16. Every beast shall fear man (Gen 9:2).
17. The ostrich abandons her eggs (Job 39:13-16).
18. A river divides into four rivers and they flow in different directions (Gen 2:10).
19. There was no rainbow before Noah's time (Gen 9:11-17).
20. Thunder is God's voice (Ps 77:18).
21. Earthquakes are caused by God's anger (Job 9:5, Ps 18:7, 77:18, 97:4, Isa 2:19, 24:20, 29:6, Jer 10:10, Ezek 38:20, Nah 1:5). Or by his voice (Heb 12:26). Or by Lucifer (Isa 14:16).
22. Rainwater does not return to the sky (Isa 55:10).
23. Moon will turn to blood (Acts 2:20).
24. The moon has a light of its own (Isa 13:10, Matt 24:29).
25. The stars can be made to fall (Matt 24:29, Mark 13:25).
26. The bat is a bird (Lev 11:13,19, Deut 14:11, 18).
27, The whale is a fish (Jonah 1:17, Matt 12:40).
28. Whales were created before insects (Gen 1:21-24).
29. Some fowl and insects have four legs (Lev 11:20-23).
30. Cattle will produce striped offspring if they see striped poles when breeding (Gen 30:37-41).
31. Bees will build a hive in a dead carcass (Judg 14:8).
32. Salt can lose its saltiness (Matt 5:13, Mark 9:50, Luke 14:34).
33. Slugs / Snails melt as they move (Ps 58:8)
