Appropos of contradictions; the other night,against my better judgement, I watched a Lost World's programme called "The Bible's Buried Secrets" Yup,it was about that oxymoron,'biblical archealogy". Unfortunately many of the claims fell under the heading of wishful thinking,the hallmark of such endeavors at best ,or bare faced lies at worst.
BUT I actually learned something about Noah's Ark: The Torah actually records that Noah was told to take SEVEN pairs of every 'clean' animal and ONE pair of every unclean animal.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/525
BUT I actually learned something about Noah's Ark: The Torah actually records that Noah was told to take SEVEN pairs of every 'clean' animal and ONE pair of every unclean animal.
Quote:Ask most children who are somewhat familiar with the biblical account of the Flood how many animals of each kind Noah took into the ark, and the answer you likely will hear is, “Two!” These Bible students are familiar with the instructions recorded in Genesis 6:19 that God gave to Noah: “And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female” (Genesis 6:19, emp. added; cf. 7:15). It seems that fewer people, however, are aware that God also instructed Noah, saying, “You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth” (Genesis 7:2-3, emp. added). According to Bible critics, these verses are contradictory. “Are clean beasts to enter by 2’s or by 7’s?” asked skeptic Dennis McKinsey (1983, p. 1).
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/525
