by Edgar Humphrey

Created on: February 08, 2007   Last Updated: May 11, 2007

Those insisting The Bible is a historically accurate work always do so without qualifying their opinion. Baseless, Anecdotal evidence is all Bible devotees can offer. Often they'll reference an atheist scientist or historian who in an attempt to discredit The Bible, became a devout Christian, as if this somehow proves The Bible historically accurate. Of course, such an argument left on it's own is laughable.

If I were to make a case for the existence of flying elephants, would my contention be validated by saying, "I know a really smart guy who believes in flying elephants. So there you have it!"? Nope. This is what's known as anecdotal evidence and it's utterly weightless. Anecdotal evidence is based on hearsay, assumption, and unrelated details, not practical, pertinent, and verifiable assertion.

Through inductive reason we can conclude that the most well known and fantastical biblical stories are just that: stories.

-A man named Noah never gathered 2 of each species of land animals and put them on a big boat to save them from a big flood. How do we know this beyond any reasonable doubt? Do the math. The Earth is populated by hundreds of thousands of different creatures great and small. To claim one man gathered two of each and put them on a boat is so ridiculous it makes me feel a little silly even trying to explain why, but here we go:

How could Noah actually collect these animals? Even if "God" compelled these creatures to go to Noah, they'd have to cross thousands of miles of terrain and sea to reach their destination. Once they arrived, they'd have to somehow fit inside a boat which by the admission of most biblical scholars was only several hundred feet long. You don't need to think too hard on this one.

-A man named Jesus who as it turns out was also the son of "God", was never brought to life via immaculate conception, never turned water into wine, never parted the Red Sea, and after being crucified, never arose from the dead? No one has ever offered a logical explanation as to how these events could possibly occur. Conception requires male sperm and a female egg. Hydro dynamics is limited by the laws of physics. To date, no one in the field of medicine has been able to make a case for human resurrection. Dead tissue decomposes.

The list is long. The Bible is filled with implausible fairy tales that have never been validated in any capacity. Even the the one piece of hard evidence Christians believed they had that would support Biblical history, The Shroud of Turin, has been soundly dismissed by historians and the qualified scientific community as a hoax.

The argument for biblical validity proves to be a red herring. Proponents always skirt the hard questions in favor of offering up irrelevant and baseless "evidence" they feel is not refutable. A reasonable man would never buy into this type of twisted logic.

The Bible is a fairy tale contrived by man. We've absolutely no reason to believe otherwise.

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