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发帖数: 38403 | 4 In the mid 1920s, Rimmer offered $100 to anybody who could prove that the
Bible was not inerrant. Although he received an enormous number of responses
, he accepted none as demonstrating a biblical error to his satisfaction.
On two occasions claimants took Rimmer to court. The first was in 1929 when
a retired army colonel challenged the story of God feeding the children of
Israel in the wilderness by sending so many quail that they were piled two
cubits high for a days journey around the camp, which he calculated would
require over 29x1012 quails (or over 12 million per Israelite). However, the
judge, apparently reasoning that Moses was a more reliable witness than the
colonel, ruled against him. In 1939, the Research Science Bureau upped the
offer to $1000.
Floyd-Rimmer Trial
William Floyd, Editor of The Arbitrator, a New York atheist magazine, sued
Rimmer on the grounds that he had discovered five scientific errors in the
Bible:
the six-day creation story;
contradictions between Genesis 1 and 2;
the record of Noah's Ark;
the alleged number of quail; and
descriptions of the camel, the coney and the hare in Leviticus 11:4-6.
Floyd disclaimed interest in the money, describing his intent as "to
convince fundamentalists, through court judgement[,] that there are such
errors in the Bible."
During the trial, Rimmer defended the Bible with statements such as "You
could get two of every species of insect on the hides of two good-sized
elephants, and they would not, therefore, occupy any additional space in the
ark" and "most all present-day scientists have completely discredited the
theory of the record of the rocks." Rimmer said of his testimony, "I showed
how God pushed the clouds further back and made what the aviators call a '
ceiling' between the clouds and the substance of the earth, and God called
it a 'firmament' and men call this cloudy ceiling 'heaven'."
Rimmer won the case on a technicality: that the particular newspaper
advertisement that Floyd responded to was not placed by Rimmer himself.
Despite this, Rimmer claimed that the trial "ended in legally establishing
the position of all who hold that the Word of God is inerrant".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Rimmer
【在 j*******7 的大作中提到】
: http://cclw.net/gospel/explore/rszl/Bible/index.html
: 逻辑证明圣经是神的话
: 神是否存在的问题已经在《到底有没有神》那本书里作了充分的证明，既然天地间
: 有一位真神，万物和人类又是他所创造的，那么
: 他既然造人，一定也愿意和人有往来和交通
: 如果这个推论是对的，那么他那么伟大，而人是这么微小，他说话象打雷一样，
: 人们怎么能懂呢？但是他必定照我们所能接受的办法，来和我们交往。人类相互交往的
: 方法有两个：第一个法子是用文字，第二个法子是见面讲话。所以神也只好照着我们的
: 智慧，和可能接受的方法，来和我们人类交往。如果这个理论是对的话，那么世界上必
: 定有一本书，就是神用来和人交往的书，而且必定具备下面几个条件：（一）这本书上
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