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According to the Christian Argument, the Bible contains amazing facts about the planet earth, compatible with modern science, which were unknown in ancient times. Argument from the Bible declares that the Bible contains no conflicts with modern science or errors of a factual nature. We have already seen Biblical errors in the form of unfulfilled prophecies and contradictions. But the claim can also be challenged by appeal to dozens of other examples. Here are just a few of them:

No	Event	statement	Scientific statement
already added	God pleases or not	Genesis 1:31 God was pleased with his creation.	Genesis 6:5-6 God was not pleased with his creation. (Note: That God should be displeased is inconsistent with the concept of omniscience.)
552	Reproduction ?	Genesis 1:28 God encourages reproduction.	Leviticus 12:1-8 God requires purification rites following childbirth which, in effect, makes childbirth a sin. (Note: The period for purification following the birth of a daughter is twice that for a son.)
553	Light	Genesis 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness.	Genesis 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.
554	Pillars of Earth	Job 26:7, which says that the earth is suspended upon nothing.	"the pillars of the earth" (9:6, 38:6) and "the pillars of the heavens" (26:11). The idea that the earth rests on a foundation or pillars is also expressed at 1Samuel 2:8 and Psalms 75:3, 104:5. In addition
555	Earth is flat	Isaiah 11:12, 42:5; Job 28:24; Jeremiah 10:13, 31:37; Daniel 4:10-11; Zechariah 9:10; Mathew 4:8; Re 1:7, 7:1. implies that the earth is flat or that all of its inhabited surface can be seen at one time from a single vantage point	Judges 13:20, 20:40; Psalms 68:18, 139:8; Proverbs 30:4; Isaiah 14:13; Mark 16:19; Lu 24:51; John 3:13, 20:17; Acts 1:9-11, 2:34; Romans 10:6; Eph 4:8-10; Re 11:12. which implies that the Biblical authors erroneously thought of the earth as a flat plane beneath a celestial dome.
556	Earth move	1Chronicles 16:30; Psalms 93:1, 96:10, 104:5 declares that the earth does not move	whereas we know for a fact that the earth does move.
557	Age of the earth	The age of the earth according to the Bible (computed from Genesis 1, 5, & 11 and Lu 3:23-38) cannot be much over 6000 years	scientists have determined that the earth is 4.6 billion years old
558	earth and sun	Genesis 1:16-17, the earth was already in existence when the sun and the stars were created	yet scientists have determined that the stars existed billions of years before the earth and that the sun also existed prior to the earth (which revolves around the sun).
559	Earth perish or not	Hebrew11: 10-11 Psalm 112: 25-26 " Earth will PERISH "	Ezekiel 1: 4 Psalm 78: 69 " Earth will Not PERISH".
560	Tree	magical trees (2:9, 3:24)	we know that there never were such things or events.
561	trees or man	Genesis 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created.	Genesis 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.
562	Flood	Genesis describes a worldwide flood that covered all the mountains on earth (7:19-20)	such a flood is impossible. Among other problems, there is nowhere from which such an enormous quantity of water (at least a half-billion cubic miles) could have come prior to the flood and there is no place to which it could have gone afterwards.
563	Language	(Genesis 11:6-9), the various languages of the earth originated all at once at the Tower of Babel	But linguists have shown that languages have evolved over time at many different geographically separate places on earth.
564	human turns to be salt	Genesis 19:26, Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt	such event is physically impossible. This is also true of dozens of other alleged miracles throughout the Bible. We know they are mythical rather than factual because they are contrary to natural law.
565	census forgery	Taking the numbers supplied at Exodus 12:37 and Numbers 1:45-46, it could be computed that the Israelites' total population was about 3 million. Combining that with Deuteronomy 7:1, it may be calculated that the total population of Palestine was over 21 million.	scientists know that the population of Palestine was never anywhere near that figure.
566	sun standstill	Joshua 10:12-13, the sun stood still in the sky	The author probably thought of the sun as going around the earth, but even if we take it to mean that the earth suddenly stopped rotating on its axis, objects would have been hurled off by the centrifugal force, which didn't happen. Hence, the account is erroneous.
567	Sun goes all around	Psalm 19:6, the sun goes all over the heavens and nothing can escape its heat	But that is false. Today we know that some parts of the universe are totally unaffected by our sun.
568	star moves over bethlehem	Mathew 2:9, a star moved in the sky until it was directly over the town of Bethlehem,	but we know that that is impossible.
569	kill the offsprings	Mathew 2:16, Herod had every child in the region killed who was under three years old,	there is good historical evidence that such an event never occurred.
570	mental illness	Mathew 8:28-33, 9:32-33, 12:22, 17:15,18; Mark 1:23-27,34, 5:2-13, 9:17-29; Luke 8:27-33, 9:39,42, 11:14-26, 13:11,16,32. the cause of mental illness and various infirmities is possession by devils.	today we know that mental illness and infirmities have a different cause
571	Noah's ark	he Biblical story of Noah's Ark must be false since it conflicts with what we know about the behavior and needs of various animals and their current distribution around the planet. It maintains that eight people cared for (what must have totaled) at least a million different animal species on a closed boat for over a year.	That is impossible! It is also impossible that all the species presently distributed around the world migrated within the past 4000 years from Mount Ararat in Turkey.
572	Quail	the number of quail described in Numbers 11:31-32. Even allowing that they came out of the sea (which we know did not happen), it has been computed to amount to 780 square miles of quail piled three feet deep.	That is certainly an exaggeration. Also, we know there did not exist armies of 800,000 and war deaths of 500,000, contrary to 2Ch 13:3,17. And contrary to 2Ch 9:23-24, not all the kings of the earth visited Solomon, for at least those in China and in the Western Hemisphere did not. And it is not the case that 27,000 soldiers died when a wall fell on them or another 185,000 awoke one morning to find that they were dead, contrary to 1Kings 20:30 and 2Kings 19:35.
573	Books of discrepancies	the author of its first five books was Moses and the author of Psalms was David. [See references on this elsewhere.	Yet there is hardly any Biblical scholar today who would accept either of those claims. Apart from inconsistencies in style and content within those books, Moses' own death and burial and subsequent events are recorded in Deuteronomy 34:5-9.
574	dead bodies	According to Mathew 27:52-53, dead bodies emerged from graves and wandered around in Jerusalem and were seen by many.	If such an event had ever occurred, there would have been some mention of it outside the book of Matthew. But there is no such mention by anyone else, anywhere. That is good reason to deny that the event ever happened. [It is also reason to suspect that Matthew embellished many of his accounts.]

Many other examples of the above sort could be cited. It seems quite clear that of the Argument from the Bible, according to which the Bible contains no conflicts with modern science and no errors of a factual nature, has been refuted.

Zoological Contradictions
No	Event	Biblical Statement	Contradicting Scientific Statement
575	man or woman	Genesis 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time.	Genesis 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.
576	birds or animals	Genesis 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created.	Genesis 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.
578	birds or man	Genesis 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created.	Genesis 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.
579	The bat is not a bird	Leviticus 11:13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomina- tion: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, Leviticus 11:14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Leviticus 11:15 Every raven after his kind; Leviticus 11:16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, Leviticus 11:17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, Leviticus 11:18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, Leviticus 11:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapw- ing, and the bat.	Deuteronomy 14:11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. Deut 14:12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the ea- gle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, Deut 14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, Deut 14:14 And every raven after his kind, Deut 14:15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, Deut 14:16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, Deut 14:17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cor- morant, Deut 14:18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
580	Rabbits do not chew their cud	Leviticus 11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
'Gerah', the term which appears in the MT means (chewed) cud, and also perhaps grain, or berry (also a 20th of a sheckel, but I think that we can agree that that is irrelevant here). It does not mean dung, and there is a perfectly adequate Hebrew word for that, which could have been used. Furthermore, the phrase translated 'chew the cud' in the KJV is more exactly 'bring up the cud'. Rabbits do not bring up anything; they let it go all the way through, then eat it again. The description given in Leviticus is inaccurate, and that's that. Rabbits do eat their own dung; they do not bring anything up and chew on it.
581	locusts	Revelation 8:7 All of the grass on earth is burned up, and then ...	Revelation 9:4 An army of locusts, which is about to be turned loose on the earth, is instructed not to harm the grass.
582	Insects do NOT have four feet	Leviticus 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Leviticus 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.	Leviticus 11:23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
583	Snails do not melt	Psalms 58:8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.	which is wrong
584	Fowl from waters or ground?	Genesis 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.	Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof
585	donkey speaks	Numbers 22:28-30, an ass (or donkey) spoke	we know that never happened.
586	Unicorn	unicorns, see Numbers 23:22, 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:17; Job 39:9-11; Psalms 22:21, 29:6, 92:10; and Isaiah 34:7	you can see only in epics and bible
587	cockatrices	cockatrices, see Isaiah 11:8, 14:29, 59:5, and Jeremiah 8:17	you can see only in epics and bible
588	dragons	dragons, see Deuteronomy 32:33; Job 30:29; Psalms 74:13, 148:7; Isaiah 13:22, 27:1, 43:20; Jeremiah 9:11, 10:22, 14:6; and Mic 1:8	you can see only in epics and bible
589	satyrs	satyrs, see Isaiah 13:21, 34:14	you can see only in epics and bible
590	fiery or flying serpents	fiery or flying serpents, see Numbers 21:6; Deuteronomy 8:15; Isaiah 14:29, 30:6. Look these up in the KJV.	you can see only in epics and bible
591	Birds	Genesis 1:20-25, birds were in existence before reptiles and insects (things which "creep upon the earth")	But science has established that there were reptiles on the earth 150 million years before there were any birds and that insects go back another 100 million years before reptiles.
592	Whale	(Genesis 1:21-24) places whales in existence before "creeping things"	scientists have determined that the origin of whales is relatively recent, in geologic time, compared with such "creeping things" as reptiles and insects.
593	animals or fruits	Genesis 1:12,21, there were fruit trees on the earth before there were any animals	but the fossil record proves that there were many animals on the earth hundreds of millions of years before there were any fruit trees.
594	trees before the sun	(Genesis 1:11-19) has fruit trees and other plants created one day before the sun	but that is impossible. The earth without the sun would have been an inhospitable place for such plants as fruit trees. They could not have survived under such conditions for one minute, let alone a whole day.
595	carnivores	there were no carnivores prior to the Fall (Genesis 1:29-30; Ro 5:12,14,17; 1Co 15:21)	But science has shown that carnivorous animals have existed for hundreds of millions of years. For example, some fossilized dung contains fragments of bone, teeth, and hair. The strontium content of some bones is that known for carnivores. And some fossilized teeth are sharp, as opposed to flat, etc. Even the fact that prehistoric humans had hunting tools disconfirms the Biblical account. Finally, from facts about the bodily makeup of such animals as spiders, fish, reptiles, felines, etc., it is clearly false that there was once a time when such animals were herbivorous.
596	evolutions	Genesis 1 describes the various species of animals on earth as being specially created in a short span of time	science has excellent evidence that the various species of animals, instead, evolved over a very long span of time.
597	talking snake	a talking snake (3:1-5)	we know that there never were such things or events.
598	snake eat dust	snakes eat dust (Genesis 3:14) or will eat dust (Isaiah 65:25)	the fact of the matter is that snakes do not eat dust.
599	creation of mammals in one day	Genesis 1:21-25,31, the time span from the first appearance of fish on our planet to the first appearance of mammals was one day	science has established that the actual time span was over a quarter of a billion years!

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