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What does it mean that there are biology fails exactly when you don't believe that truth really exists?
And women don't have worse bleeding after giving birth to girls than they do giving birth to boys. And many other things.
Perceptions exist in the same way all ideas do, and reality does exist, I just don't view truth and reality as being one and the same.
Plus, don't think I don't know that it is possible to believe something or state something which doesn't match reality.
So in reality the Bible really doesn't fail in biology.
...so it's your contention that the rearmost limbs of grasshoppers aren't legs?
They do only have four legs for moving. And two specialized limbs for jumping. The bible is quite accurate. Your statement above in incorrect.
"Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing, that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; (including) the locust . . . the beetle . . . and the grasshopper after his kind" (Leviticus 11:21,22).
There is no indications of "worse bleeding" in those passages. It is all based on customs and ceremony as far as the spiritual cleanness of the baby, not the mother.
Are we listing Biblical bio fails?
Well, off the top of my head...
Rabbits don't chew cud, unicorns don't exist, and a representative of every species couldn't walk to Noah's house and then berth happily thereon for a year or so.
In reality, the bible makes references to biology related matters that greatly conflict with the reality of biology.
Leviticus 12:2 through 12:5 , women bleed for a week after the birth of a boy and are unclean for 33 days, bleed for 2 weeks and are unclean for 66 days after the birth of a girl.
Unclean does not mean bleeding. It means no sex. It is ceremonial.
You must have missed reading this verse:
Lev 11:23
23 "But all other winged insects which are four-footed are detestable to you.
NASU
There are NO four footed winged insects.
Just because the grasshopper legs in back stick up high, does not stop them from being legs.
Its quite clear what the OT is proscribing, there. Flies, beetles, and so forth are unclean.
They are not four footed. They are six legged.
Yes, it does. Those back legs on a grasshopper are entirely different from the front four. Just because the bible has more detail than what you would does not mean it is wrong or in error. Even the hind legs on a bee are different than the other four and used differently.
So yes, there are many "four footed, winged insects".
Sorry, I flip flopped it by mistake, the 33 and the 66 days are the bleeding, it reads oddly.
"She shall continue in her blood" and similar statements refer to the extended bleeding women have after giving birth.
Still, only ceremonial. You have to realize you are reading from a translation into English, which is far more vanilla and direct than Hebrew.
Menstruation = niddah = separation from marital relations and sacred things.
Niddah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
so if I use my feet like hands, and my legs like arms, apparently to you they stop being legs.
Blood is blood though, and apparently women of old just sat in it until it stopped. Which is really gross.
Blood is blood though, and apparently women of old just sat in it until it stopped. Which is really gross.
Why would you think they just sat in it?
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