The Statler Waldorf Balcony

[Zen Badger]

And @ Rjh4, If you can come up with a classification system that can put a furbearing, lactating, tooth equipped creature in with feathered egg laying avians that don't lactate I would love to hear it.

Plants
(All plants subdivided here)
Animals
-----Animals that fly
(All animals that fly subdivided here including what we now generally call "birds" as well as "bats")
-----Animals that don't fly
(All animals that don't fly subdivided here...would not include "birds" or "bats")

Do you really lack that much imagination, Zen, that you couldn't come up with this yourself? Man has chosen to classify animals in a certain way. There isn't just one way to classify things. Furthermore, I am certainly not arguing that the current classification system is "wrong".

So what you're saying is that since bats aren't plants they must be birds.
Yes, I'm sure it takes quite a bit of imagination to be able to classify a bat as avian, it really does.

I think it is perfectly fine. But to say that the Bible is "wrong" because it clearly classifies things differently than we do it now is ludicrous.

How pray tell can it possibly be right?

By what astounding feat of mental gymnastics can you arrive at the conclusion that the the bible is in fact correct? When a BAT IS NOT A BIRD!!!