2006-08-23 09:49:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
AMDG, are you trying to tell me that God was confused by the difference between bats and birds?
That doesn't seem right to me.
2006-08-23 09:58:23 · update #1
PS: eating crap is not chewing the cudd. period.
If the bible is perfect, why can't it have just said that don't eat rabbits, b/c they eat sh1t?
2006-08-23 10:01:00 · update #2
PS: eating crap is not chewing the cudd. period.
If the bible is perfect, why can't it have just said that don't eat rabbits, b/c they eat sh1t?
2006-08-23 10:02:01 · update #3
1 kings 7:23 has pi at 3, not 3.14
odd god cant do math
or someone who talked to god - forgot?
2006-08-23 10:01:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A bat could be confused as a bird (since it flies like a bird) and being at night would be hard to differentiate between the two.
As for rabbits:
The Torah says that we should not eat "the arnevet, for it chews its cud but its hoof is not split." Most commentaries translate arnevet not as rabbit but as either coney, rock badger or hyrax, all of which do in fact chew their cud. Some point out that the rabbit is auto-coprophagous, which can be seen as a form of cud-chewing, where the cud "ferments" externally.
2006-08-23 09:57:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It isn't right. Well maybe 2000 or so years ago people figured since bats flew they are birds. Just like people thought (and some still think) whales are fish because they swim. BTW - bats aren't flying rodents - they are in their own order - Chiroptera.
Rabbits don't chew the cud even though they are herbivores - and they are members of the rodent order (Rodentia) - either but they can be mean little SOBs and scratch the heck out of you. Eating them is fine by me but i find them a little greasy and bony for my taste.
2006-08-23 10:06:31 · answer #3 · answered by Sage Bluestorm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bats are mamals in the family,Chiroptera. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bats
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae. See :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits
Rabbits do not chew the cud (alhtough they do eat grass).
Cud is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the process of rumination, or "chewing the cud".
The alimentary canal of ruminants, such as the cow, goat, sheep and antelope, is unable to produce the enzymes required to break down the cellulose and hemicellulose of plant matt
See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cud
Hope this helps:>)
2006-08-23 10:06:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bats are flying rats. They are in the rodent family. I don't think rabbits chew the cud, I know cows do.
2006-08-23 09:51:55 · answer #5 · answered by Coco 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Kinda blows Biblical infallibility out of the water, doesn't it?
2006-08-23 09:52:07 · answer #6 · answered by Scott M 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋