Atheism leaves too much room for error.

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Well we know it was stories and texts that were put together into one big book.

The question was about the language. Xtian crazies insist that there were Hebrew texts and we do not have a single example of such a text. What we have is in Greek.

Let's remember the historical context. The Persians restored Judah (as the Persian province of Yehud) c 530 BC. Persian control existed for two centuries until Alexander the Great overran the whole Persian empire. In the aftermath of his death, his generals divided up the empire and Ptolemy, in Alexandria, had control of Yehud in the early 3d century....exactly the time that the Septuagint was written. Now, Ptolemy the first was famous for looking for books for his new library in Alexandria. Tradition is that Jewish scholars translated the Torah into Greek for inclusion in the library. But there is no evidence to support the tradition in the form of pre-existing Hewbrew texts. Could these have been oral tales, told to Greek scholars who then wrote them down? Yes. Many religions...including the Persian's Zoroastrianism...did not have written texts at the time. Knowledge was transmitted orally from priests to initiates. But nothing slows down a xtian from believing in his fairy tales.

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I have shown how life and universe began with materials that are so small they can't be seen by the human eye.

http://www.livemint.com/2009/08/18154337...t.html?h=B

New York: Astronomers claim to have found an amino acid on a comet for the first time, a discovery which confirms that some of life’s building blocks were delivered to the early earth from space.

Amino acids are crucial to life because they form the basis of proteins, the molecules that run cells. They form when organic, carbon-containing compounds and water are zapped with a source of energy, such as photons — a process that can take place on earth or in space.

Previously, amino acids have been found in space rocks that fell to earth as meteorites. Now, a team at Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center have analysed samples from the agency’s Stardust mission and traced the amino acid called glycine to an icy comet for the first time, the New Scientist reported.

Oops. Looks like we don't need any silly 'god' to account for this, either.