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Originally Posted by ElProximo

It's a helluva lot more rational, logical and scientific than your '0+0 = something' and your 'Nuttindidit' explanation for complex working information systems.

Again, I don't believe in something coming from nothing. I already told you this. I do believe in some sort of greater cosmic force. Just not your one. And just not your big book of Jewish myths and legends. Sorry.

Of course many books in The Bible describe the earth as being flat, and that stars as being merely dots in the sky that could theoretically rain down on us. And that everything orbits the earth. And numerous other geographical contradictions we now know to be bullshit.

I thought it was meant to be the word of God? You telling me he dosn't know his own construction site?

Want some more? Sweet. So do I :

The Bible is a hodepodge collection of oral history, poetry, legend, myth, geneology, prophesy and visions, some of which date back to nomadic tribes in the Middle East. The problem with oral histories is that they change over time, and there is no way to verify what the original version of any of the accounts in the work might have looked like.

The oral histories that were eventually included in the Bible were written down by different groups of people over centuries, and copied by hand numerous times, introducing changes and inaccuracies in the process as with any text that is copied (witness the variations in Shakespeare's folios).

Numerous versions of chapters that have been included in the Bible by various groups (Jews, Gnostics and Christians) exist, and arbitrary decisions have been made as to which ones to include in what is accepted as the modern Christian version of the Bible. Chapters that have at one time or another been included and then removed from the Bible are called the Apocrypha. Some of these, most notably what are believed to be Gnostic texts, differ radically from the currently accepted version of the Bible.

Both the Old Testament and the New have numerous internal contradictions that render any attempt to deem words of the Bible literally true impossible. For example, there are two different accounts of creation in the Old Testament and major contradictions among accounts of the life of Jesus in the New Testament.

Linguistic and textual analysis of the Bible has demonstrated that some chapters have elisions or additions made by different authors, making a determination of the 'original' or 'true' version of the Bible problematic.

There is ample evidence that some elisions and additions to some chapters were made for political reasons, or to express a religious viewpoint that differed from that held by the original author of the chapter.

Historical sources show that the New Testament is factually inaccurate on matters including the reign of Herod and the Roman census.