Copland III

Often, when confronted with scientific facts about the placebo effect or evolution, a fundamentalist Christian’s answer will begin with:

You are incorrect. There are numerous examples in Scripture of (insert phenomenon here)…

But can we treat this “Scripture” as a reliable historical source? Often, when trying to explain the awesomeness of the bible (and god) to a child or an unbeliever, a person will say

“The Bible’s an awesome book. It’s thousands of pages long, and was written by scores of authors over thousands of years…”

If we replace every instance of the word “Bible” with the title of another book, then from these statements, the book would sound thoroughly unreliable. But no. It’s the Bible – it must be valid.

Yeah, right.