I don't care about bible contradictions.

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Besides, if God gave us absolute perfection in His written word.. How many generations would have been lost to His level of understanding of how the universe works, before we could even begin to verify what had been written? To me it makes much more sense to 'filter' His truth through the prophets of that day, because a much broader range of people can be reached.

What would make even more sense would be to have some stuff for the people of the time and at least a few bits describing complicated modern ideas, so we don't look at the book and go 'well it all looks like a bunch of bullshit.'

Of course the bible fits much better if we assume rather than being divinely inspired it was written by primitive people doing their best to understand the world around them.