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To: Thalos; Junior

From your link, Thalos:

"Also, we must be aware that it is modern science that has a different classification system than ancient times. To the ancients, creatures such as a bat were considered birds since they categorized all flying animals as birds. If that is the category that they used, then they were correct. It is not an error. It is a difference of categorization procedures. The critic has imposed upon the ancient text a modern system of categorization and then said that the Bible is wrong."

What part of this explanation do you disagree with? Are you saying modern taxonomy is your basis for disagreeing with the Bible? I would call that a pretty weak, unsupportable argument.

The same site discusses rabbits.

Locusts: Perhaps the hind legs (hoppers) were not counted in the description. From a current web site (http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_insects/ScientificInsect.htm):

"There are great variations on insect legs. Cockroaches have three pair of strong legs and they run very fast. Grasshoppers have their last pair of legs modified and they can jump to start a fright quickly. Praying mantids have their front pair of legs like a weapon to catch prey. Dragonflies do not use their legs to walk but to capture insects and hold them under their mouths. Butterflies use their legs to taste the food. Besides, insect legs are also used for digging and swimming."

Note:

from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthoptera

Taxonomy note
Note that the cricket suborder Ensifera will probably be given its own order soon, the Grylloptera. The Orthopterists' Society also recently (December 2005) decided upon a major change in the classificatory organization of the Ensifera.


313 posted on 09/19/2006 12:40:21 PM PDT by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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To: srweaver
To the ancients, creatures such as a bat were considered birds since they categorized all flying animals as birds.

Indeed. These are the kinds of errors you would expect from cultures of that time -- but not from God.

319 posted on 09/19/2006 1:05:39 PM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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To: srweaver
What part of this explanation do you disagree with? Are you saying modern taxonomy is your basis for disagreeing with the Bible? I would call that a pretty weak, unsupportable argument.

Of course not. That would be retarded. However, since these words are not accurate, one cannot claim that every word in the Bible is true. Using it as a science text is even worse. Not all of this is "modern taxonomy", either. Some of it is objective facts that are wrong regardless of what era you are in.

Locusts: Perhaps the hind legs (hoppers) were not counted in the description.

They're still legs. In fact, since they are used for jumping, and are therefore the primary means of ground locomotion, why didn't God refer to locusts as only having two legs in that case?

781 posted on 09/20/2006 10:58:55 PM PDT by Thalos
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