Trying to defend one of hundreds of pseudo-scientific claims made by the Bible, is only an exercise in futility. Although the Bible never mentions by name, the class "Insecta", or the subphylum "Hexapoda"(six-feet), it is clear that the Bible is talking about flying swarming 6 legged...
This is the claim of the post. If the critic of the Bible is using the text of the Bible and a knowledge of insects to make the determination that the Bible is not a source of scientific information, then they are not making that conclusion uninformed. The Bible implies that insects have four...
If the truth were so obvious, then why do you suppose you had to engage in a rather lengthy exposition to try to point out the 'obvious'? If it were so obvious, then why the need to explain it?
And it is so weird how YouTube refutes your strained etymology...
Insects have three pairs of legs. Locusts are insects. They have three pairs of legs. If they are described as four-legged, then the description is wrong. It says every winged creature that walks on four legs and that is more than just locusts. Sorry. Better luck next time.
The Bible critic will sometimes make the uninformed claim that the Bible isn't scientific because it says that insects have four legs.
Leviticus 11:20-23 - Every winged swarming creature that goes on all fours is a loathsome thing to you. Only this is what you may eat of all the winged...
That is very strange. Especially considering that in Joel1:4, God seems to use other insects as well as locusts, and the scientific non-believers (who I respect and like BTW) haven't taught us the scientific relevance of the abundance of roaches and crickets.
Perhaps they question the...
Exodus 10:4
Also, the YouTube video suggests that other insects (in this case, cockroaches) also came with the locusts... This is also biblical.
Joel1:4
Really! Who says it's an incorrect translation? Not by my source, which spells it "owph," and gives the following definition: 1) flying creatures, fowl, insects, birdsa) fowl, birds
b) winged insects
Really!fowl (n.)
O.E. fugel "bird," representing the general Germanic word for them...
Original Post Edited By Raymond Sheen
Skwim,
Bats And Birds
The Hebrew word ohph, used at Leviticus 11:13 is sometimes translated incorrectly as birds and sometimes as fowl. The English word fowl applied originally not only to birds but all winged flying creatures such as bats and insects...