(April 17, 2013 at 7:16 am)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote: Yahweh was so stupid he thought rabbits chewed their cud. That combined with some other taboo made them unclean.
Do you really believe that the Israelites were so stupid that they would believe a rabbit would chew the cud if it did not, you have some poor reasoning skills. This very thing should have been your first thought, that a people would not eat of a plentiful food source because the food laws given to Moses stated something they knew to be untrue. That indeed would be a strange thing. You want to apply today's science to yesterday's world, use that brain would you. The rabbit is not considered a ruminant today because it does not chew the cud as what is defined as ruminant in today's science. Yet the rabbit does chew the cud in a different way, and at one time the rabbit was considered a ruminant. In Hebrew to chew the cud means to "raise up what has been swallowed," the rabbit practices refection, which is to pass through what was eaten as partly digested pellets, the rabbit eats these pellets and they are digested to nourish the animal. The same process basically without the extra stomachs, the same results for the same reason.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
