The Bible is reliable

Outline:I. IntroductionII. Contradictions in the BibleIII. Scientific Fallacies IV. SourcesI. IntroductionThe Bible is a collection of Christian scriptures consisting of sixty-six books from the Old and New Testaments. Some works from the Bible originate as far back as thousands of years[1]. According to Biblica, the International Bible Society, the Bible was written from about forty main contributors - thirty in the Old Testament and ten in the New Testament [2].I will be arguing that the Bible is unreliable because of the contradictions in the book and blatant scientific fallacies. II. Contradictions in the BibleThe Bible possesses many verses which refute each other or provide a different take on a story. In this section, I will be listing a few contradictions.1 Chronicles 11:11 states "And this [is] the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain [by him] at one time." However, 2 Samuel 23:8 says "These [be] the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same [was] Adino the Eznite: [he lift up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time." 1 Chronicles 11:11 states that, with a spear, David slew three hundred men. However, 2 Samuel 23:8 states that David slew eight hundred [3].Matthew 27:28 says that "and they stripped him ,and put on [Jesus] a scarlet robe," while Mark 15:17 states that "they clothed him with purple," and John 19:2 states that "the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put [it] on his head, and they put on him a purple robe."Matthew 27:28 contradicts these two other verses by depicting Jesus's robe as scarlet, while the other passages say that it was purple [4].Isaiah 27:4 says "Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together," describing God as a being incapable of being furious. However, multiple passages such as Micah 5:15 "I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard," and Nahum 1:2 "God [is] jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies," which demonstrate that God is furious of humanity [5].Genesis 1:11-12 and 26-27 state that trees were created before man. However, Genesis 2:4-9 states that man was created before trees.Though some of these contradictions may be little details, they prove the fallibility of the Bible. They go against an idea that these scriptures were written by infallible prophets and God.III. Scientific FallaciesThe format for this section will be divided into different paragraphs, each dealing with a different topic about the scientific fallacies of the Bible. The Bible makes subtle indications about how the Earth is flat and fixed in the center of the universe such as Chronicles 16:30, "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable." However, things such as day-night cycles are caused by the spherical Earth rotating on its axis so that the sun is and isn't visible on sides of the Earth. If the world was a flat disc, it'd flip in a direction perpendicular to its own plane. Theoretically, light and dark would occur instantaneously on either side of the Earth. Additionally, the center of Earth's gravity is its core. When we do something like jump up, gravity will force us down towards the direction of its core. The Bible also exhibits "magical" themes such as alchemy when, in Genesis, clay waschangedtoman. This process may be described as alchemy, the spontaneous conversion of a material to another, such as lead to gold. Alchemy is impossible because it is theoretically impossible to remove or add protons to change the identity of the atom, aside from radioactive decay. The Bible also suggests that the world is approximately 6,000-7,000 years old according to Answers in Genesis.org [6]. However, through radiometric dating, geologists have found the Earth to be surpassing three billion years of age [7]. Additionally, Bill Nye (the science guy) argued against the young-Earth beliefs in his first debate between him and Kem Ham about the validity of the Bible and Christian beliefs, saying "My scientific colleagues go to places like Greenland, the Arctic, they go to Antarctica and they drill into the ice with hollow drill bits; it's not that extraordinary, and many have probably done it yourselves, like with hole saws to put locks in doors, for example. And we pull out long cylinders of ice, long ice rods. And these are made of snow and ice. It's called snow ice. Snow ice forms over the winter,andsnow flakesfall,andare crushed down by subsequent layers. They're crushed together,andare entrapping little bubbles. The bubbles must needs be [from] ancient atmospheres; there's nobody running around with a hypodermic needle squirting ancient atmosphere into the bubbles. And we find certain of the cylinders to have 680,000 layers. 680,000 snow winter/summer cycles. How could it be that just 4000 years ago, all of this ice formed? We can just run some numbers. Let's see we have 680,000 layers of snow ice, and 4000 years since the great flood, that means we need 170 winter/summer cycles every year. For the last 4000 years. Wouldn't someone have noticed that? Wouldn't someone have noticethere'sbeen winter/summer, winter/summer for 170 times in one year?" [8]. The tale of Noah's Ark states that Noah and his family single-handedly built a large ark capable of housing two of every creature on Earth to survive a flood lasting around 150 days. Noah and his family would also have to tend to the animals, feeding them and addressing their other needs. It's estimated that the ark would have to be "around 510 feet long and 51 feet tall," [9]. Would it even be possible for one family to create such an enormous ship in their lifetime, even if Noah surpassed 900 years of age? Additionally, to retrieve every animal on Earth, Noah would have to travel across the world to take and preserve two of each animal, including the penguins in the Arctic, the emus in Australia, the wild boars in Europe, the Canadian Geese in North America, and the llamas in South America. How possible would that be? IV. Sources[1] https://en.wikipedia.org...[2] https://www.biblica.com...[3] http://bibviz.com...[4] http://bibviz.com...[5] http://bibviz.com...[6] https://answersingenesis.org...[7] http://www.extremescience.com...[8] http://www.youngearth.org...[9] https://answersingenesis.org...