re the list of biblical contradictions jim brown wrote deleted i feel that those who use the kjv as a basis for arguing biblical contradictions are either being intellectually dishonest purposefully wanting to show the bible in the worst light possible or they are being mentally lazy and are taking the easy way out either way they leave the theist the option of countering with well that s just the kjv that s not what my xxx version says deleted unfortunately it s not that simple the kjv is preferred by the majority of fundamentalists at least here the second part of your argument fails as well since that statement can be used against any version not just the kjv deleted i ve based my argument on one of the best modern translations available which is based on the work of the leading biblical scholars deleted i would not find this statement to be very useful since it is an appeal to authority and the opposition will just claim that their authorities are better a second tact that local creationists have used is to reply but those scholars are atheists and cannot be believed they will also use this phrase to describe any theologians that they don t agree with deleted gen and the flocks conceived before the rods and brought forth cattle ringstraked speckled and spotted deleted the verse being discussed clearly claims that sympathetic magic works i e placing stripped sticks in the cattle breeding grounds causes stripped and spotted calves to be born and should be attacked on that basis no biologist has ever observed this claimed correlation
