Not only are they reaching, RationalSchema, but they are conveniently forgetting such nuggets of biblical "science" as:

1. The creation of light...without bothering to create a light-generating object for...uh...four days.

2. The misidentification of the moon as a "lesser light," presumably analogous to the "greater light," i.e., the sun.

3. Bats are birds, don't you know!

4. And insects have *four* legs!  (Now, now...we can't go counting the legs of actual insects...why that would be logic and evidence, which of course, is the work of Satan.)

5. The value of pi is equal to the integer 3.

6. No evolution, of course.

I'm sure I missed other little gems. 

And to think that I once took this book seriously....

Conor

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"Faith does not fear reason."--Pope Pius XII

"But it should!"--Me

Yeah, the bible has been so helpful in advancing scientific knowledge. Here's an excerpt from a long response I wrote to a Jehova's Witness book that claimed to prove god. This particular bit is about one specific problem with the flood. I didn't even bother to look into how much of a change there would be in the earth's rotation as a result of gaining all the mass (still curious, may work it out some day).

The Second and Third day explanation about the lifting of the waters and the falling in the days of Noah is riddled with fatal flaws. For fun, here's some math. Genesis 7:12 says that it rained 40 days and 40 nights. Genesis 7:19 says that the flood waters covered the highest mountains under the entire heavens, and Genesis 7:20 is more specific, stating that the mountains were under 20 feet of water. Of course, the actual measurements in the bible are in cubits, but we can approximate into feet since we know how big a cubit is. The highest mountain in the world is 29,028 feet and Mount Ararat, the resting place of the ark mentioned in Genesis 9:4, is 16,854 feet tall. This means that the flood waters would have been 29,048 feet above sea level, or if for some reason you want to argue that the bible is wrong and flood waters only covered the local mountains, then they would have at least been 16,874 feet above sea level (5.14 km). The average radius of the earth at sea level is 6,372.797 km. Using the volume of a sphere (4/3*pi*radius^3) we can calculate ((4 / 3) * pi * ((6,372.797 + 5.14)^3)) - ((4 / 3) * pi * (6,372.797^3)) = 2.62532689 × 10^9 cubic km as the total volume of water that would have covered the earth above the normal sea level in cubic kilometers (or 2,625,326,890 cubic km). The total volume of water on the earth (including ground water) is approximately 1.36 * 10^9 cubic kilometers, of which ~95% is in the oceans. This means you'd need nearly two times as much additional water in order to have a flood of the necessary size. Where did all this water magically go? Some creationists argue that if you were to smooth out the surface of the earth, water would cover it to a depth of 20 meters, but that completely misses the point, because this flood supposedly happened less approximately 6,000 years ago and the mountains (even according to the bible) clearly existed. If mountain ranges suddenly grew by 20,000 feet in the last few thousand years, someone would have noticed.

It is impossible for all of this water to have existed in the air in “vapor”form for a number of reasons such as the fact the atmospheric pressure would have been immense (the equivalent of being at 5km below the ocean!).

Indeed Mike.  Where the Biblical authors definitely used Greek fiction models to write their books, they certainly did not heed the excellent scientific philosophies of many Hellenes!