1) The bible says everything was created in seven days. SEVEN DAYS!! Okay, so maybe if there was a divine being responsible for its authorship, early man would not have understood the physics and biology involved. Couldn't 'god' just say 'it took a really long time'? Why say 'seven days', which is ridiculous? It isn't true in any definition of 'day', unless you define each day to be 'some incredibly long amount of time that is indeterminate', but then how do you know there were exactly 7 of these lengths of time? Why say '7' at all? Especially 'days', which early man could only interpret one way.
Now, if the bible was a book a fables by ancient men, you can easily see where 7 days came from. Their 'god' is all-powerful and miraculous - OF COURSE it only took 7 days to make the earth! Pfah!
2) And the flood, how about that? Bible says it covered the entire earth. Now, today, we know that can't possibly be true, so you try to explain away 'well, they really meant the earth as it was known then', etc.
Which isn't what the bible said. It says 'the entire earth' - and not just the entire earth, no indeed, god says in Gen 6 that he will, in fact, destroy every single thing he created with this flood. Yes, that's another statement it makes that modern science knows can't possibly be true, so it has to be explained away.
There are a few more, but the point is that the bible makes many statements that, if you believe it was inspired by god, there are problems with. Specifically, they can't be true as they were written.
In any case, here's an interesting link for those willing to think for themselves:
192 Biblical ErrorsThese actually present much greater detail than I have above, and are quite an interesting read.
Edited by - Xander on 20 September 2002 13:3:47