I have done this a number of times but I would point to number 5 having to do with the sanitary laws of Moses: "Sanitation industry birthed
(Deuteronomy 23:12-13). Some 3,500 years ago" Of course the The Code of Hammurabi (a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia) is older then the law that we get from Moses. But the law of Moses is a lot more valid for us today. For example the Jewish ghettos during the black plague seemed to do better then those who were not following the Sanitary laws set down by Moses.
1. What "sanitary industry"? Let's have those verses and have a gander at this so-called "industry":
Deuteronomy 23:12-14 NIV
12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.
13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
14 For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
2. What a joke! A cat scratching in a hole for itself in my lawn does as well!
- The problem here is where "outside the camp" on scratches one's hole.
- IF it's uphill of or too close to the camp's water supply, then sickness/disease could easily be spread,
- I don't see ANY kind of relevant/good advice on where one "scratches" one's hole and in FACT such "holes" could actually be prove to be most unsanitary IF all their filth was in the wrong spot (e.g., uphill of or too close to the water supply).
3. CONCLUSIONS:
A. A cat does just as well, so I guess the cat must have beat science to the "punch" when it comes to inventing a "sanitation industry".
B. Color me so NOT impressed with this obvious hyperbolic bunk about Moses inventing a "sanitation industry" (the cat beat your Moses to that "scratch", so to speak!).
Even when a women has her menstrual (Leviticus 15:19-33). The advise Moses gives could be substantiated by modern science today.
1. You've got to be kidding me! That misogynistic tripe about menstruating women being "unclean".... how is that substantiated by ANY modern research? ==>
your citation of any scientific literature that supports/"justifies" any of the egregious, vile humiliation of women below:
Leviticus 15:19-33 NIV
19 “‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
20 “‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Anyone who touches her bed will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. 22 Anyone who touches anything she sits on will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. 23 Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, they will be unclean till evening.
24 “‘If a man has sexual relations with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.
25 “‘When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period.
26 Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period.
27 Anyone who touches them will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
28 “‘When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.
29 On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
30 The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the Lord for the uncleanness of her discharge.
31 “‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place,[a] which is among them.’”
32 These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of sperm,
33 for a woman in her monthly period, for a man or a woman with a discharge, and for a man who has sexual relations with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.
2. OBSERVATIONS:
A.First, what does being "unclean" mean scientifically? Is she carrying the plague/some deadly disease while menstruating that isn't there during her "clean" days?
B. Second, you claim that science backs up this tommy-rot about a woman being "unclean" (definition?) which means you will need to support that with actual scientific research showing that a menstruating woman is so dangerous that
- people shouldn't even touch her
- come in contact with any object she has (chairs, beds, etc.)
- have sex with her
C. Well, where's the "beef"?
IOW, where are your citations showing that a menstruating woman is "unclean" which actually defines what this means and shows it to be so dangerous that such prohibitions as given above are actually warranted?
CONCLUSION:
1. That's just another rasher of the disgusting misogyny that's so rampant in the Bible.
A. Woman-hating control freaks using any excuse to emotional/physically humilate the women even going so far as to vilify them as filthy
based on a bodily function that's absolutely necessary for the continuation of the human race.
B. How do you think this ranting of you're unclean!, UNCLEAN! would make a woman feel about herself?...it's only real function is to destroy her sense self-worth by humiliating her to the max! (all control-freaks employ this trick to gain control of a now mentally/emotionally castrated victim).
C. I guess that pack of Bronze Age/Iron Age woman-haters didn't know the actual function of the menstrual cycle when they designated menstruation as "unclean", something that only shows their profound IGNORANCE of human biology.
D. It is however, an excellent example of a common tactic employed by all control-freaks/abusers, first destroy the self-confidence/sense of self-worth of your target, in this case we have a deliberate, institutionalized monthly round of vicious, humiliating degradation of the woman (you're unclean!, you're UNCLEAN!)
Although having to sacrifice two turtledoves may not be considered essential in this day and age.
IF your Bible is so "scientifically accurate" then why NOT?
Or could it be people have realized this kind of animal cruelty accomplishes nothing but...cruelty?
BOTTOM-LINE
Another big ZERO for your claim that "science verifies the Bible" when investigation of what's actually written there just shows how grotesquely ignorant they actually were.