He had a gift for producing unlikely explanation to protect the veracity of the biblical text , such as insisting that the passage where the rabbits chew their cuds is a mistranslation , or insisting that camels do not have cloven hooves .
He had a gift for producing unlikely explanations to protect the veracity of the biblical text . 
 Rimmer also insisted that the passage where rabbits chew their cuds is the result of a mistaken translation , and claimed that camels do not have cloven hooves .