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The stories that are around about people trying to tie biblical stories into scientific fact are always amusing. However it is like all controversial subjects, the adherents will never be convinced so it is pointless to argue.
The probable reason is that English as a language has so many similar words describing different things that the wrong meaning is given.
This is exacerbated by the fact that most of ancient languages that the old stories are translated from never had words to describe what we accept as "gospel" and so wrong meanings are given for simple visual accounts.
I always use the story of Cinderella and the glass slipper to show this. The European versions of the story refer to the glace slipper which in fact means fur slipper. A much more comfortable piece of footware.
Barry
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