(January 27, 2015 at 4:05 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 27, 2015 at 3:55 pm)SteveII Wrote: I would like to know a few Bible claims that are contradicted by scientific facts. Leave out miracles for a second because of God exists (which is kind of the theme of the Bible) then miracles exist and therefore would not be a contradiction.
Why bother? You're just going to blindly assert that your interpretation of whatever we say conveniently sidesteps the obvious contradiction.
But the easiest one would just be that the creation account is contradicted by what we know of biological evolution; the bible makes an unambiguous claim that all life was created, in pairs where humans are concerned. This is, quite simply, wrong: life evolved gradually as part of a complex, interconnected series of speciations from common ancestors. If your response is to appeal to interpretation then you're essentially saying that the bible says one thing, but means the exact opposite of the words it says, and I don't know why you expect any of us to take that seriously at all.
One issue I have with evolution is the interpretation of skulls. There is enormous variation of size and shape in the human skull.
For example, look at the following comparisons:
Modern Aboriginal vs Slavic skull [1]
"its morphology (the Modern Aboriginal skull) could be described as archaic" (Jim Vanhollebeke - Paleoanthropologist)
Neanderthal vs Homosapien skull
Note the protruding eye ridge and 'bun' are similar features in both Neanderthal and modern Aboriginal skulls.
To claim that Neanderthal was a less evolved human is simply not objective science.