Manifestations of scientific deficiency in the Bible

 The Tale of the Sacred Rabbits

Praise be to God, and peace and blessings be upon His chosen servants. As for what follows:

One of the characteristics of the words of God Almighty, if you want to know them, is that the words should be free of any incorrect information about what science has found and that they should not contradict established scientific facts. This is self-evident without a doubt. It is impossible for there to be a word of the Lord that contains any scientific error that contradicts what science has reached in later ages.

Therefore, if you have a book that mentioned scientific facts from more than thousands of years ago and modern science has supported them in those days, then know that you have the word of the Lord preserved in your hands. However, if you find a contradiction between the established scientific facts and what is in the book, then know that the content of this book is human and has no connection to the holy word of God Almighty.

Here is the question: Does the Bible contradict the established scientific facts that have been discovered and reached?

The answer is yes. Among the things that contradicted science was what was mentioned in the Book of Leviticus about ruminant rabbits in Chapter 11, Verse 6: “

And the rabbit, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof, is unclean to you.” 6
The reason for the prohibition of eating rabbits is that they ruminate and are impure.

The question here is: Is the rabbit a ruminant?


The famous Wikipedia encyclopedia answers this question, saying:

A ruminant is any hooved animal that digests its food in two steps, first by eating the raw material and regurgitating a semi-digested form known as cud, then eating the cud, a process called ruminating.


Ruminants include
cattle, goats, sheep, llamas, giraffes, bison, buffalo, deer, wildebeest, and antelope.
The translation of this statement is:

A ruminant is an animal that digests its food in two steps, first by eating the raw material and then vomiting it up in the form of semi-digested food known as cud. This process is called rumination.

Ruminants include cows, goats, sheep, llamas, giraffes, bison, buffalo, deer and African antelope.

To make sure, you can check this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruminants


. The strange thing is that you find people trying to philosophize and issue fatwas to prove the validity of the text in any way and that it does not contradict the facts established by science, leading ordinary people away from what is intended and misleading them.

Among these people was Father Antonius Fikry, who says in his interpretation of the Book of Leviticus the following:

Quote:
The Jews divide animals into four categories: 1- Terrestrial 2- Aquatic 3- Aerial 4- Verminous swarms
(groups of vermin and insects)
. We find in the divisions found here that God is not interested in the scientific aspect, but rather in what people observe. Because, as we said, God asks
people to observe and contemplate. For example:

A- The bat is placed with the birds, although it is an animal, but it flies. People see it flying, but the birds were placed last, perhaps to indicate that it is not a bird, but rather resembles birds.

B- The wool and rabbits are placed with the animals that chew, although they do not chew the cud, but they always move their lips as if they chew the cud. This is what it appears to people. It is as if God wants to say that what I care about is the inside, that is, the heart, and not what the lips do."This people praises me with their lips only, but their heart is far from me" meaning God does not accept hypocrisy Isaiah 29:13
You have noticed how the priest tried to evade in order to mislead the reader about the fact that the rabbit is not a ruminant?

But the question is, does God not care about the scientific aspect as the honorable priest says?!!!

If this were true, he would have simplified the information instead of mentioning a false fact in the Bible.
Also, isn't this book, as Christians claim, a book that is valid for all people of all ages and times

? Didn't the Lord know that there would be those who would come in the future to discover that the rabbit is not a ruminant?
Isn't this book valid for those who discovered that the rabbit is not a ruminant as it was valid for other previous nations?

The word cud in English means (cud) and this word has several definitions in foreign dictionaries: -


The first definition: -
(Dictionary.com Unabridged v 1.1)

the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.

The part of the food that the ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth of a ruminant and chewed again. The

second definition:
(American Heritage Dictionary) Food regurgitated from the first stomach to the mouth of a ruminant and chewed again. The third definition: (The American Heritage Science Dictionary) Food that has been partly digested and brought up from the first stomach to the mouth again for further chewing by ruminants , such as cattle and sheep.

















Do rabbits do this process?

Of course not, and this contradicts scientific facts.

For more definitions, click on this link:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cud

And God is true when He says (And if it had been from other than God, they would have found within it much contradiction.)

The Book of Leviticus, Chapter 11, Verse 6:

And the rabbit, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof, is unclean to you.


Firstly/ The rabbit does not have a hoof to divide!!

Secondly/ And this is our topic today "The rabbit because it chews the cud"

Is the rabbit a ruminant animal?!


Let's answer this question to know what rumination is? We
will explain it with an example: Ruminant animals such as cows, sheep, goats and camels do the following

. Notice the picture:

A ruminant animal The name of ruminant animals in English is Ruminants, meaning animals with a potbelly!! Here we come to the first point before we complete the rumination cycle: The truth, gentlemen, is that the rabbit does not have a rumen "potbelly" at all for it to be called "Ruminants", meaning ruminant!!

The rabbit

has a stomach, not a rumen!!
A stomach, not a rumen!!

Second: Let's go back to the image of rumination in the cow to explain what it does?!
The green pathway shows the food entering the rumen,
then the food ferments in the rumen and moves between the chambers in the rumen until it moves to the reticulum and the cow begins to ruminate this food again to re-chew it, which is what the red pathway shows.
Then the food does not enter the rumen "rumen" again, but rather goes to the abomasum,
then after that the food enters the intestine "intestines" for absorption until excretion!

Now, gentlemen, what I said is called rumination and Ruminants do it?!

This is the digestive system of the rabbit

This

is the entire digestive tract:

If anyone

wants to explain to us how a rabbit ruminates, please explain to us in this picture with arrows!!

Let us know

how the rabbit is Ruminant, which does not have rumen?

THE RABBIT



Anna Meredith MA VetMB CertLAS MRCVS

Head of Exotic Animal Services

Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies


University of Edinburgh

Digestive contract . Rabbits are hind-gut fermenters, adapted to digest a low-quality, high-fiber diet consisting mainly of grass. However, unlike other hind-gut fermenters, for example the horse, the rabbit has a very rapid gut transit time and eliminates fiber from the digestive tract as soon as possible. This permits body size and weight to remain low, which is advantageous in a prey species. In the wild feeding takes place mainly in the early morning, evening and at night.

The gastrointestinal tract makes up 10-20% of body weight. The stomach is thin-walled, and poorly distensible with a well-developed heart and pylorus. Vomiting is not possible in the rabbit. Food and caecal pellets are always present in the stomach. The duodenum and jejunum are narrow, and at the end of the ileum there is the sacculus rotundus, rich in lymphoid follicles, and also known as the ampulla ilei or ileocaecal tonsil. The caecum is very large, thin-walled and coiled, and has many sacculations (or haustrae). It terminates in the vermiform appendix, which is also rich in lymphatic tissue. The caecum lies on the right side of the abdomen. Caecal contents are normally semifluid. The colon is sacculated and banded. Colonic contractions separate fibrous from non-fibrous particles, and fiber moves rapidly through for excretion as hard faecal pellets. Antiperistaltic waves move fluid and non-fibrous particles back into the caecum for fermentation. Three to eight hours after eating, and thus mainly at night, soft, mucus-covered caecal pellets are expelled and eaten directly from the anus (a process known as caecotrophy, coprophagy, refection, or pseudorumination). Arrival of the caecotrophs at the anus triggers a reflex licking of the anus and ingestion of the caecotrophs, which are swallowed whole and not chewed. A muscular band of richly innervated tissue with a thickened mucosa, the fusis coli, lies at the end of the transverse colon and acts to regulate colonic contractions and controls the production of the two types of pellets.

The most prevalent caecal bacteria are of the anaerobic gram-negative genus Bacteroides, Proprionobacteria and Butyrivibrio bacteria. Gram negative ovals, fusiform rods, large ciliated protozoa (Isotrichia) and yeasts (Cyniclomyces guttulatus) are also present. Coliforms are not present in normal animals.

The mucus covering protects the caecal pellet bacteria from the low pH of the stomach. Caecotrophs remain in the stomach for up to six hours with continued bacterial synthesis, and eventually the mucus layer dissolves and the bacteria are killed. This process of caecotrophy allows absorption of nutrients and bacterial fermentation products (amino acids, fatty acids and vitamins B and K), and the redigestion of previously undigested food. A food item can thus
pass twice through the digestive tract in 24 hours

Source:
http://www.aquavet.i12.com/Rabbit.htm