RE: Giants
July 15, 2012 at 9:17 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2012 at 9:19 am by Pope Alfred.)
ElDinero Wrote:Just thought I'd remind everyone because it's fucking hilarious. Giants. Next time a fundamentalist fuckhead challenges you to give an example of something scientifically inaccurate in the Bible, have a go with this one. Any of the Christians here that want to have a go at explaining this one away, have at it.
Giants, for fuck's sake. Haha.
Seems to me it may be one of the more reasonable claims, unless giant is defined as impossibly large.
Say the average height of a man in those times was not much over 5 ft. Quite likely, I'd say. Now bring in a very unusual man of, say, 6ft 6" or more - unusual, but by no means impossible. He might well be described as a giant, depending on what the original Hebrew word brought to mind in those days. After biblical times, of course, the word picked up all manner of supernatural baggage from folk tales.
There's a lot of truly loony stuff to pick on in the bible, let's leave out vague terms such as giant.
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