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  2. From: cctr114@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Rea)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
  4. Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
  5. Message-ID: <BxsHEB.5AL@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 03:22:59 GMT
  7. References: <28064@castle.ed.ac.uk>
  8. Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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  13. G T Clark (gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
  14. > 
  15. >     The bible is patently not inerrant.Read Leviticus,chapter 18(or
  16. > thereabouts) where it fairly clearly states that insects walk "upon all
  17. > fours... fourfootedly upon the ground".That's quite clearly a mistake,
  18. > no matter what stage it crept in at.
  19.  
  20. This isn't a mistake, its an idiom.
  21.  
  22. > 
  23. >     G.
  24. > 
  25. > p.s. that's from the King James VI (authorised) translation.
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  29. Bill Rea                                                            (o o)
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