# The Validity of the Bible

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-validity-of-the-bible/21942>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 10, 2000, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-validity-of-the-bible/21942 "2000-06-10T05:52:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-validity-of-the-bible/21942/41 "2000-06-13T11:19:20Z")

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Dependent clauses don’t work that way.

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-validity-of-the-bible/21942/42 "2000-06-15T15:33:30Z")

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[http://www.playlink.com/staff/dfox/monkey.htm](http://www.playlink.com/staff/dfox/monkey.htm)

Someone let me know when that little guy cranks out a new chapter…

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**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-validity-of-the-bible/21942/43 "2000-06-15T15:56:38Z")

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> [http://www.playlink.com/staff/dfox/monkey.htm](http://www.playlink.com/staff/dfox/monkey.htm)
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> Someone let me know when that little guy cranks out a new chapter…  
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I’m curious. How did protein homology arise, if not by evolution through natural selection?

-Ben

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-validity-of-the-bible/21942/44 "2000-06-15T16:15:25Z")

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Oh God. I just realized how utterly trollish that post was. This is in NO way an attempt to begin an evolution debate.

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**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-validity-of-the-bible/21942/45 "2000-06-24T18:18:29Z")

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Well, I just got linked here from Esprix’s pit thread, and I thought some of y’all might enjoy a purely secular look at the bible and it’s validity, using accepted standards for historical documents. Be warned, Christians, you will not like the conclusions drawn.[Just click here!](http://www.pe.net/~bidstrup/bible.htm)

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2000, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-validity-of-the-bible/21942/46 "2000-06-25T04:16:36Z")

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If real life events that match obscurely worded passages are a basis for a system of belief, then we need to start a religion around Nostredamus ASAP.

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