Science & The Bible(was First human)

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>MCGILL

>" The bible is not meant to be a scientific book, but when it

>touches on matters of science it has proven to be accurate" --Terry W. 

>Dawson

>

>The Bible says the bat is a bird (Lev. 11:13,19), hares chew the cud 

>(Lev. 11:5-6), and some fowl (Lev. 11:20-21) and insects (Lev.11:22-23) 

>have four legs.


DICK JONES
This is semantics, not science. On the insects, the writer assumed
with some logic that insects have four legs and two arms.

MCGILL
OK, how about "hares chew the cud".
"cud: food brought up into the mouth by a ruminating animal from its 
first stomach to be chewed again" --Webster's 9th New Collegiate 
Dictionary.

"ruminant: chewing the cud : characterized by chewing again what has been 
swallowed: of or relating to a suborder (Ruminantia) of even-toed hoofed 
mammals (as sheep, giraffes, deer, and camels) that chew cud and have a 
complex 3- or 4-chambered stomach." -Webster's 9th New Collegiate 
Dictionary

"ruminant Ruminant means cud-chewer and refers to even-toed 
(split-hoofed), cud-chewing mammals, including the cattle, sheep, goats, 
antelopes, chevrotains, and the camels and llamas." --Grolier 
Encyclopedia Of Knowledge 1995.

The hare IS NOT a cud chewer. The Hare is NOT a ruminant. 
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