And all are living creatures. That means we and amoebas are really one and the same.
I read your lengthy rationalizations. Anyone who reads that chapter will see that bats are included with birds. Obviously they were not insects, which are distinctly different from birds.
The author simply didn't know that bats are not birds. And that's fine with me, but it's not good enough for the Bible. The point is that if everything in the Bible is "God-breathed" then it should be true even if man's perceptions at the time the book was written were flawed.
What that means is that God would never allow the author of the book to say that the earth sits on four pillars because it is false. God would never allow the author to say that the mustard seed is the smallest seed, because it isn't. Never mind the fact that the smaller one is in Hawaii. God would know that but not the author.
The fact that such statements exist, it is evident that not everything in the Bible is the word of God, unless one is willing to say that God intentionally placed false statements in the Bible!
God stands for absolute truth and absolute truth doesn't change. If the Bible is simply the taxonomy of men, as he knew the world at that time, then it is not God's word but man's word.
taxonomy of men=taxonomy of man