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At 12:24 AM 3/31/98 -0800, Dave Gaban wrote:

>> >Dawson

>> >

>> >The Bible says the bat is a bird (Lev. 11:13,19), hares chew the cud

>> >(Lev. 11:5-6), and some fowl (Lev. 11:20-21) and insects (Lev.11:22-23)

>> >have four legs.

>> 

>> This is semantics, not science. On the insects, the writer assumed

>> with some logic that insects have four legs and two arms.

>> 

>> Dick Jones

>

>DAVE G.

>Assumed with some logic??? He was very wrong. Where was his logic?


The logic is that 'normal' creatures have two arms and two
legs. The fact that six appendages were observed on insects,
led the writer to decide by analogy with human beings and the
human language to consider them as two arms and four legs. 
This is merely semantics, word definitions, and has nothing
to do with reality or truth or errancy. What difference does
a word label make? In fact, to me a praying mantis looks like
it has two arms and four legs, as do some other insects. Just
what distinguishes an arm from a leg? Raccoons are often
referred to as using their hands. Does a monkey have four legs?
Does an hyena have four legs? These purely arbitrary word
definitions have nothing whatever to do with the truth or the
falsity of the Bible. Those in the Atheist religion goes to
some ridiculous lengths to find imagined flaws in competing
religions.

Dick Jones

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