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  • i can understand how frustrating and disturbing for R. Dawkins to sit through all this. wish Chris Hitchens (RIP) was there to make mince meat out of these retards.

  • The woman rabbi shouldn't be debating if she doesn't realize that facts are facts, not opinions based off of experience.

  • "I have a completely different view on what fact is..." Of course you do.

  • @iancmcintyre Facts are relative, take the Rome Emperors, what are claimed about some has to be bullshit, while other things we take as facts or not, just depends, facts are fucking relative. Truth, depends, to those who thing the bible is fact, it is, and all the people who disagree are liars or something...

  • I guess Christians I that same mentality, they are like sheeps.

  • @Peterbeater01 Sheeps? O_O

  • Wow, that last guy with the glasses on has no mind of his own, he does not think for himself.

  • Ok so the bible has history, wisdom, poetry, proverbs,... and a whole lotta bullshit. Why does everyone overlook the bullshit.

    Talking donkey... history? poetic? wisdom? or bullshit!

  • @Kaandorpius Gods coming down, fucking people, Zeus, Athena, whatever, the legends were facts, there are things we take as facts that are not. Hitler was catholic, but most rant the an atheists, most people do not know a damn thing about history. Debt debate is bullshit, the claim Gold can not crash, those are bullshit but many believe it, just like homes can't crash. The US is democratic, is not true, yet people believe it truth and facts are always relative.

  • Francesca.... she's friggin hot... i mean,.. she's a beautiful sophisticated lady whom i'd like to fuck in every impossible position possible.

    Yes i know that makes very little sense.

  • Down below under the ground,exist those whom already died.They are as dead as Democracy itself.And yet,they go endlessly on searching for that eternal guiding light which God.

    And up above in the surface.Exist those who belong in the world of the living.They are full of life.Alive strong and healthy.And yet,they themselves go desperately on looking for the obscurity of things in the dark.

  • @papermermaid Don't divert from the topic, we are talking about the bible from the historical perspective, and sorry to disappoint you but mainstream archeology agrees with biblical records.

  • @eXteZin One example: Exodus. Egyptian records of the era never mentions Israelites in their records. Egyptians, recorded everything of major importance. They would not have left it out.Yet no papyrus scroll, no hieroglyphs. At the very least they would have spun the story to be their benefit, yet nothing was there. Another example: Gospel of Matthew where the dead rise after Jesus died. The Romans would have written about that definitely, yet NOTHING. No book, scroll or frieze.

  • oy then we have our evangelical alliance dudes answers to the question, did that happen...

    why not?

    what proof does he have it didn't as i don't have any proof it did so i wont knock you then just leave me alone ...no worries game over, what the big debate..pick a better subject why is there War and who wins in the end? there's a good start

  • and i quote ~ it doesn't have to be true to derive a truth from it~~~ oh my sole... you cant be serious...where did they get this clown. i think someone needs to sit with him and get a definition of truth

  • oy a female Rabbi that should get the Hassidic or Orthodox blood going..:)

  • oy some slick sidesteps form our sceptic on the bishops comeback, oy she is out of the water

  • i wonder where this woman got her degree. Either there were Canaanite and Babylonians or there weren't we have evidence of it, and it is in other writings aside from the bible....oy pretty but ..whew!

  • @urkyle11 can u tell me the other evidence?

  • @mademan4life ok you would need to do some serious net searches on the latest Archiological finds that have been documented recently.. these are not scriptural and emphatically prove the existence of tribes or nations as described in scripture one very good place to start is the Quamran scrolls ....

  • listen to the text of bob marley one love.

  • she's crazy, she was not there all those years ago

  • Who is she, intellectual, bright, beautiful and the accent so damn sexy! 10 of 10... The debate in general, really interesting... 

  • she"s smart and hot, I like. Bible is fiction. well most of it

  • not a radical skeptic but just simply stupid and blind to the world around her!

  • @613stam

    She is an educated bible scholar...why would you call her stupid?

  • @papermermaid She is a biased biblical scholar pretty much rotted in atheism, how much experience does she really have to merit her for dismissing so causally over 3000 years of history?

  • @eXteZin

    Oh I don't know - her degrees maybe? Or that the Bible is not a historical reference. It is a mythological book.

    She can back up EVERYTHING she is saying. However believers can not. It is called evidence. That is why she can dismiss the bible's skewed version of history.

  • @papermermaid Scholars agree that Jesus existed and if Jesus existed then they would have to deal with the fact he acknowledge Moses and David since HE was the descendent of king David as stated in the Bible. There are many archaeological facts that prove the historical portions of the bible and are still on-going. Having a Degree and looking pretty does not give her the license to dismiss it. There is more accomplished archaeologist who would disagree with her notion of ‘’very little probably’’

  • @eXteZin

    Just because a guy named jesus existed, doesn't prove his divinity. There were many messiahs around at that time. Many born of virgins, crucified, and had followers (even performed miracles). You can't be so deluded to think that there weren't people who claimed to know the ending of the world didn't exist back then. Those same people exist now. Except now we call them what they are - nuts.

  • @papermermaid oh please show me any evidence of any other as you call them 'messiahs that were of virgin birth.

    there is no writings what so ever of this go back and hide under your rock.

  • She is hot! No, I am not talking about the rabbi lady.

    OK, I confess: I have a weakness for beautiful, intelligent, and british accent girls...

  • @gandralf If she were theist and said the Bible was the word of God your comment would be very different.

  • You need Salvation and freedom. Freedom from Satan's distractions. Distractions like books, universities, science, biology, astronomy and other useless secular non-sense GLORY

  • 240,000 people go to Hell every day. That's 158 people a minute. You can line up all the people who went to Hell in the last 10 years and have them all hold hands – if they hadn’t been chewed off by demons.

  • do you want to be in my gang?....... make a alittle story up you'll qualify

  • 09:08 Bottom left corner, reaction to bullshit. Classic.

  • Francesca Stavrakoupolou's published work is different from what she's saying on the show. She affirms that both David and Solomon were real people. Yet here she says that they weren't. Keep in mind that Dr. Stavrakoupolou is an Atheist and bible minimalist.

  • she "thinks". Key word there. Really what does she know about the bible.

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  • This Nazir arsehole is a bitter little cunt. Owned repeatedly by the archaeologist, he can't admit he's pinned his colours to a mast made of shit.

  • My understanding is that Israelite society developed gradually out of wider Canaanite society, and that the idea of them arriving and supplanting the original inhabitants is nonsense.

  • I would

  • The priest makes use of a number of fallacies (for example, speaking on behalf of 'most' mainstream archeologists), as reasonable as he sounds. The woman is making a perfectly valid point.

  • funny how the guy at the end wants to believe in science and that the bible is fake with just stories and adam n eve isnt true, yet science has already narrowed down genetically the human existance to just two ppl who probally were created in ethiopia. lol man do athiests and non believers just keep looking dumber and dumber!

  • @ImaBeast7 You really kinda lost it when you said created - see the DNA sez these two walked Africa WAYYYYYYy longer than the 5,000 years your funny book claims the world is.....

    And they were not created - evolved is the word you are looking for..

  • @krackersdave no. created was correct. we never evolve. evolution takes more faith bc anyone with a brain knows evolution on a major scale isnt possible. sorry for your mishap.

  • @ImaBeast7 This is so untrue on many levels it's absurd.

  • @DeathBringer769 not really. but i can understand you dont know what your talking about.

  • @ImaBeast7 Ok so you quote science based on DNA to state that all humans are decended from a single pair to match your creation theory... Then TOTALLY ignore the fact that the very existance of DNA enforces and validates evolution as it explains the engine of evolutionary change?????

    Sorry to burst your bubble but evolution and change in a species through mutation of DNA has been DIRECTLY OBSERVED many times in multiple species.

    And you are totally ignoring my point that the (cont)

  • @krackersdave actually your sounding dumb. dna does anything but validate evolution. and what you fail to realize is the mutation observed still keeps the secies the same species! y? bc dna has a bit a wiggle room for survival but never into a new species. funny how most science shows evolution isnt possible but some and narrow minded ppl still hold on to the absurdity. fruit fly experiement proves you wrong.

  • @ImaBeast7

    Um. Actually, experiments with fruit flies are common in biology, and none of them have ever been a problem for evolution. Fruit flies are even used as a model organism to understand details about evolution.

  • @ImaBeast7 (cont) mitochondrial DNA evidence you quote points to a common ancestor over 200,000 years ago!!!! That presents an interesting problem for creationists who use the bible - the timescale is vast and what exactly was God doing for the intervening 198,000 years before deciding the best way to save mankind was to appear to an illiterate stone age tribe of Jews in the desert in the form of a bush fire!

    Where exactly were you educated? Afghanistan?

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  • @krackersdave this doesnt present a problem at all. where you get your info from atheist for dummies? God or the bible doesnt say how long adam and eve lived before the fall. before the fall they were immortal so to speak. could have easily lived 100000+ years.

  • @krackersdave hell im sure it wouldve took time to name all the animals and what not. besides if im going to create a planet and give it attributes of physics and laws to govern them im not going to create an adult tree and give it attributes that it was a day old! it would have the correct attributes to fit as if it was an adult tree! same with the planet!

  • @krackersdave fact is you can google all you want. ive seen much smarter atheist or evolutionist ive debated with. just not taking much time with you bc well at the moment your objections are sad and poor ones at that. sorry for your mishap.

  • @ImaBeast7 What proof do you have that Adam & Eve were immortal before the "fall from grace"? It does not say that in genesis. You are making that up.

  • lmao, that indian dude owned that dumb woman! lol she so stupid

  • If you believe this lady, ill sell you the great pyramid of giza for a dollar!

  • shes so fkn stupid she dont even know the 3 main qualifications to why certain books were chosen for the bible while others were declared false. what a poor historian this woman is. they were chosen b/c they were proven to be 100% FACTUAL and true. while the rest had errors and couldnt be verified to be authentic.

  • wow, this channel is so fkn stupid. Most REAL historians and scientists have already concluded that the bible is one of the most FACTUAL book in existance.

  • @ImaBeast7 So zombies were getting out of their graves in first century Palestine?

  • of corse the bible is fact why would god write a book that wasnt fact athiests are scum let them laugh coz they wont be laughing when there burning in hell

  • @daveywhippet It's not just fiction, it contradicts itself numerous times. Google "Bible contradictions". And also, how do you know God wrote the Bible?

  • @daveywhippet God didn't write it. Until you prove that god "WROTE" the bible, you will still be far from proving that God told the truth

  • i believe it happened because jesus did.how do you know jesus did?it highly immoral.i dont see jesus as being immoral at all.i still dont like the old testament very much just because of their cruelty.i prefer to take jesus out of the bible and put him in a book he deserves.bb

  • @witchcerridwen some people have already done that.

  • @iliveon you mean some people offered their child?im not sure this happened in the christian world,it does happen in other cultures with their own bizar believe.as the lord giveth and the lord taketh.i think burring a child alive is simply cruel.

  • @witchcerridwen some people have already created sects that use just the New Testament, and excluded the old testament. I mean they can latch on to whatever story that makes them feel good

  • @witchcerridwen It's ok they do it from the inside out , so you don't notice.

  • @witchcerridwen It u look into the birth certificate u will notice that on the application the mother signs as the informant or affiant*, to deliver her baby over to the State(Church)*. That's why Mom suffers consequences if she don't train her child according to the school, church, & law enforcement codes & regulations...She can denounce consent at anytime.

    *Cestui Que Vie Act 1666..."Declaration of Grant", Nolo's Plain English Law Dictionary**U.S. Codes vs. Code of Canon Law

  • hottie :)

  • @jimnebob i know right

  • The guy at the end is .... wow the stupidity. "I believe it happened because Jesus did"

    WOW us apes are stupid.

  • @TheAtheistSocialist I love the facials of the bearded guy behind the presenter as he is reading the story of Soddom & Gomorah....priceless!

  • read the bible morons god has spoken jesus is our lord and savior athiests are brainwashed deluded fools it is them that believe the fairy tales of evolution they are the lies of satan

  • @daveywhippet - I wouldn't concern yourself too much about it mate, any theory of evolution clearly doesn't apply in your case. :p

  • @daveywhippet isnt the bible a fairy tale as well?i mean talking snakes and talking donkeys?

  • "bible scholar"??... i am a "time magazine" scholar. Do we really need "scholars" to read over and over books about BULLSHIT.. i mean, we already KNOW, it is BULLSHIT, RIGHT? :P

  • i don't mind if you base YOUR reality off fairy tales written in the Bronze Age, but why do you have to wear such silly hats? p.s. stay the fuck away from public policy and any politics for that matter, you've admitted your incompetency through faith and that is intolerable in any healthy society

  • religious fundamentalists dress like pimps

  • when scholars agree Jesus existed, they don't mean a son of God born of a virgin that died and was resurrected and performed miracles

  • athiests and gays are possesed by satan they need to accept jesus christ into there hearts

  • @daveywhippet LoL

  • @daveywhippet - comments like that make you look like a lunatic - Jesus taught tolerance, so maybe it's you who needs to learn something?

  • Fun to watch the creatard at the end squirm. He don't beleeb. He jus' playin'.

  • all holy books including the koran came from the bible

  • Francesca can have my babies.

  • Professor Dawkins is amazing. Unfortunately, the bible bashers aren't smart enough to understand him.

  • The bishop avoided the Noah's Ark question - gee I wonder why LOL

  • jesus is gonna send you athiest lowlifes to burn in hell for eternity and us christians are gonna laugh and say we told you so

  • @daveywhippet "Us Christians?" You can say this about others, and still think you're a Christian? Take care of the beam in your own eye before castigating other people for the motes in their eyes.

  • @daveywhippet lol, good one. Nah seriously though my god is waaay strong than yours!

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  • god wrote the bible you athiest lowlife satanic scum

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  • @daveywhippet If someone is an atheist, how can they be satanic?

  • @daveywhippet

    Come now. Surely Christ taught that we should love our neighbour and our enemy? If it turns out that faith in Christ and not living a good life is what matters then those in heaven will surely not be cruel and capricious enough to mock those in hell.

    Further, God did not write the Bible. If you believe he did write the Bible then you have to explain why it contradicts itself. You have to explain why the Bible claims it was written by a variety of men. You're in a bind.

  • She's right! The Israelites came from the Canaanites. There was no Abraham, Moses, David or Solomon. There are no artifacts or any documents that prove that these people ever lived. These Priest and Rabbis are lying. The Old Testament was put together mostly in Babylon, from the 6th century BC to the 2nd century BC. And when Jesus and Muhammad came on the scene, they did not know that Moses did not right the Torah, because there was no Hebrew alphabet then- not until 300 BC.

  • @freedomfightertwo continue with the work brother

  • the reason i disliked this video was her comment on jesus.there is actual prove he didnt exsit.thats why she said most scholars she cant say all for a great reason.yes im capable of giving u the truth about religion

  • Of course most of it is historical, even the whole calendar is set around Christ. Duh. Geneologies, so and so went here and there, and begat so and so. Archaeology. Secular historicals. All of it validates the accuracy of scripture. Even science.

    What do some gov funded egg heads have to say about it? Most likely that which keeps them gainfully employed by illuminati ran institutions.

    Which would include, Judas mainstream 501c3 Christian "churches". lol

  • @Gabe7King8ofrnr10 Actually the calender we use today (BC/AD) was not even formulated until 525 AD and was not in general use until around 800 AD.

    Which archaeology and "Secular historicals" validate the accuracy of scripture?

    Also, just because it says in the bible that somone went somewhere, doesn't prove anything other than that the place mentioned existed.

  • @Gabe7King8ofrnr10 Actually, you're correct, the calendar was set around Christ because Christ was another symbol for the sun. Therefore, Christianity is based upon astrological occurences, like every other religion before it. And the scriptures are full of shit.

  • Dawkins owns everyone, of course.

  • The black dude doesn't answer the question about Noah's Ark - gee I wonder why LOL.

  • Everything is bollox, beware of the moment in which you delude yourself into believing that you know something.

  • dr.francesca,thats a beautiful women.

  • You have to get to know kids to understand the feelings that cause you to be foolish.You may have mentally developed but at heart, you're still a child.

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  • The bishop is clearly not interested in archaeological FACTS.... :P figures....

  • @sunlitekid01 I visualize grasping at straws when he speaks.

  • Africa has all the resources it needs to become a progressive country,but no one wants to work.Wherever there is work,women mine and farm,men just sit chilin'..progress just won't come.Look at the rest of the world.Everyone does better than africa

    God gave you a choice, do or not to do.God will aid those who ask and try but don't blame god for people's laziness

    No doubt you would criticize god after watching some videos about africa but you have to see their lifestyle itself to see the problem

  • All prophetic books are post death written NOT by prophets more than three hundred years AFTER the death of them. So, nothing was left to prophecy.

  • Francesca is GORGEOUS! An articulate woman with beauty is perfect for me.

  • Shes awesome! Calm, intelligent, composed and beautiful 

  • "Hey Bill?"

    "Yes Ted"

    "She's a Biblical Babe"

    "Air Guitar Solo"

  • The woman - intelligent

    the Priest - fantasist

  • Professor Francesca= BEAUTIFUL.

  • @pyropakman - I agree, Beautiful and smart, lethal combination. Very hot!!!

  • @pyropakman I am an atheist, however after seeing Professor Francesca, I can honestly say, I believe in god.

  • @Drwatson1977: hahahahaha Excellent point, good sir. Sexual selection is a wonderful thing. Excellent waist-hip ratio. Indicative of high exposure to estrogen and a high fertility. :D

  • "I beleive it happened because jesus did..."

    BBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­!

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  • very little is factual, lol, classic

  • lol so some of the bible is obviously fake? and yet you follow it still?

  • @draydrone I don't think you really understood this conversation. It's not "fake". Something not being literally true doesn't make it "fake".

  • @demonella if its not fact, its false, if i say i have a lolipop in my hand and i dont, than i simple dont. Oh wait it's an invisible lolipop, got you there

  • fuck the one in white will make me study the bible omfg

  • Romans 1:22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,

  • @beautifulwhitecat Like the Pope and every religious authority you ever met you mean?

  • @iowntwocats

    NIIIIIIIIICE!!! =))

  • @beautifulwhitecat talking about the religious snake oil sales-men.

  • ...mourn the death of people withing plundered cities like moab, for example.He tells them to run from them to escape.So even if you were to assume that "cursed is he" was meant as "i will curse", it doesn't fit with god's later words where he says he is sad and will mourn their death.

    Btw, just in case, "shall" also does not necessarily mean "I will", only means "will", but by what or who, doesn't clarify.

  • girl pretty

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  • The Hittite Empire is now known as the 3rd largest Civilization in the Ancient World.

    In Genesis 11:31, for instance, Abraham (Abram) is said to have lived in the city of Ur. The existence of this great city was often scorned until, recent archeological diggings uncovered its ancient ruins. Temples, houses, and even the king's and queen's tombs have been discovered.

  • Skeptics viewed the Bible as myth rather than real history. The Bible makes over 40 references to the great Hittite Empire. 100 years ago no archaeological evidence had been found to prove it did exist. "Just another Bible myth!" skeptics charged. In 1906, Hugo Winckler uncovered a library of 10,000 clay tablets. Ancient records fully documented the lost Hittite Empire & confirmed the reliability of the Bible. Later excavations uncovered Boghazkoy, the capital city of this "mythical" empire.

  • Fiction is always derived from some facts just like if you watch star trek you can probably find some facts in there the correlates with the real world.

  • Her Archaeological evidence of history must be selective because there is evidence that does support a King David of Israel. The evidence they have found shows he was real but what they have not found is if he was as big or powerful as the Bible stated.

    Solid, documented evidence outside the Bible record confirms events and persons that were at one time considered to be suspect or plain false.

  • And I don't know who the hell did you even interpret the bible to have said that enslaving women was righteous.Seriously. Can you explain to me how does the bible say that it is righteous.How did you come to understand it that way?

    It talks about giving away daughters as "sex slaves" but their treatment(as god demanded) was no worse than any other free woman.So "slavery" can be a bit vague.Maybe it was necessary I don't know but "righteous", never did it say that.

  • @IRussian007 "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women a will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety." 1 Timothy 2:12

    I don't know about "sex slaves" but this is just one quote how nice we should treat our women

  • @tevemark XD, again out of context.It is not the bible or god that says that women should be treated as such. it was paul who said that. He didn't even quote god or anything. He clearly said that on his own accord, how he seen was to be fit. Another thing i noticed- the first part says "let a woman learn.." not "a woman should learn..".

    Throughout the new testament, there are teachers such as paul who make strict remarks or even sort of threaten people with god's power, but of their own accord.

  • @IRussian007 I mean I could continue quoting the bible all the with vile a despicable things, but you say that all of them are "out of context" and not "The true word of god". Either the bible is the word of god or it's not. If you yourself start to quote mine and find whatever parts you find "agreeable" are you truly a "true believer"? or are you just looking for some answers you want to hear?

  • @tevemark it's true that the bible is the word of god but it's not true that all of it is.It's like saying everything in a book is the word of the author. There are parts in any book that may be spoken by someone else. Do you even read books.All of them are like that, even autobiographies.Some contain different proportions of their words and other people's. The same with the bible.There are things not even spoken by the authors of the bible, yet are included.

  • @tevemark ...so are you now going to say that every word of it comes from god? I say no, like it is. There words from god, random jews, random other peoples, priests, kings, prophets, and including teachers and preachers like paul, peter, etc. Not just god's words. "god's word" is rather a term that is interpreted to be "the word of god only".

  • The guy at the end is functionally insane.

  • I.E The bible writers were focking lieing through their teeth.

  • ...but to ask one must accept that god is there, or else whom are you to ask for pardon?

    Being christian simply means being on the right path but being on the right path, it doesn't mean to be at the doorsteps of heaven.

  • this is why people don't allow kids to use guns.They feel like gods.

  • That last guy was entertaining. "I believe it because Jesus did..." So you are creating the situation of assuming Jesus believed that text, and making that the authority which is taboo to criticize. It is much like passing the blame to someone else...

  • Wow... It appears that that only two rational people on that stage are Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou and Prof. Richard Dawkins.

    Katalyzt

  • @Katalyzt Agreed.

  • It is so fascinating and revealing that the religious just simply can't answer the questions that are asked of them. At every turn we see them trying to answer a question that wasn't actually asked. "Do you believe in the story of Lot?" "I believe in Jesus." "Yes, OK. Do you believe the story of Lot?" "I believe Jesus did." etc. etc. etc. etc.

  • @hairyreasoner I believe she turned into a pillar of salt. There were reports of such a discovery just like the discovery of the ark and the rock that moses hit and from it, water ran, etc. but were never put in the media. This is where truth becomes lies. You gotta get of the web and into the desert.

  • @IRussian007 LOL. Where is the evidence of the ark? Moses? Even Old Testament scholars laugh at this.

    I have no time whatsoever for conspiracy theorists.

    The ARK? this is too funny.

    Do you not think that the American media would have jumped on THE ARK for crying out loud...

  • @hairyreasoner Nope, the media wouldn't. The ark not being shown has nothing to do with conspiracies, just lack of care.

    Please name me one "bible scholar" you know, preferably in person. Because this argument is old and pointless."even.......think it's fake as hell". XD I put trust in my brain rather than another person's dishonesty.

  • Have you ever actually read the biblical story? Lot--the righteous man of God that he was--offering his virgin daughters to a mob to be raped. And then later, in a cave, getting drunk and screwing both of them. Of course, it was THEIR fault for getting him drunk.

    It’s all just hilarious, bronze-age, patriarchal, homophobic, misogynist superstition and primitive brutality. Too funny.

  • @hairyreasoner when drunk,people have poor judgment.In fact it was actually more like that lot got screwed instead of being the one screwing the.Yes,their fault.Or explain to me why it was HIS fault.

    The actual funny thing is how you think you already poses much understanding of the bible just because you read the story.I can tell your mentality apart from a person from china,for example.You judge the bible by how you grew up in this society and to think it's "advanced" just because its 2011 XD

  • @IRussian007 You silly, ignorant, presumptuous dolt. I was raised in a religious family and was forced to study the bible and worship God for nearly 2 decades. I then went to University, where I studied biology and geology for 5 years. I then worked as a biologist for a further 6 years. Somewhere along the line I shed the superstition and came to be able to view it for what it was.