Deuteronomy
Introduction

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21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34

Injustice
Cruelty and Violence
Intolerance
Contradictions
Absurdities
Family Values
Women
Good Stuff
Sex
Interpretation
Science and History
Prophecy
Language
Homosexuality

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SAB: Deuteronomy

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Science and History in Deuteronomy

1. It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 2:7, 8:2, 29:5

2. "A land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time." (They must have been much more common back then.) 2:10-11, 20-21

3. Og, the king of the giants, was a tall man, even by NBA standards. His bed measured 9 by 4 cubits (13.5 feet long and 6 feet wide). 3:11

4. God promises to cast out seven nations including the Amorites, Canaanites, and the Jebusites. But he was unable to fulfill his promise. These nations were "greater and mightier" than the Israelites, who according to Ex.12:37 and Num.1:45-46 already had numbered several million. So the region, according to the bible, must have had a population of more than twenty million! 7:1

5. This verse mistakenly says that the hare chews its cud. 14:7-8

6. To the biblical God, a bat is just an another unclean bird. 14:11, 18

7. "An eagle ... beareth them on her wings."
   Do eagles carry their young on their wings? I know of no evidence (except for the single anecdote provided here) that they do. 32:11

8. "Their wine is the poison of dragons." I wonder what genus and species the bible is referring to when it mentions dragons. 32:33

9. Joseph's "horns are like the horns of a unicorn." 33:17