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- From: lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard)
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- Subject: Re: Pt 1/3: Agnostics and Athiests
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 06:59:00 GMT
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- In article <713649613.F00002@csource.oz.au>, joe@csource.oz.au (Joe Slater) writes...
- >Friday August 07 1992, Bob Beauchaine writes to All:
- >
- >>> number of beasts in the ark
- >
- >I don't see any difficulty here. Obviously 7:2 says how many mated pairs, and
- >7:9 says that the animals entered the ark in mated pairs. Perhaps I'm missing
- >something.
-
- Yes, verses 19-20 of chapter 6.
-
- >>> The bat is not a bird.
- >
- >We classify bats as mammals which fly. The Bible classifies them as flying
- >things which are mammals. See the difference?
-
- The Bible does not classify bats as "flying things which are mammals."
- See Leviticus 11:12-19. It lists "the bat" as an instance of what "you
- shall detest among the birds."
-
- Jim Lippard Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- Dept. of Philosophy Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
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