Inerrant Bible

PZ Meyers was kind enough to link to my post below. While scanning the referral log, I noticed that his post on faith-based structural engineering was pasted into someone's posting at a TheologyOnline forum. Hmmm ... an undiscovered country of faith-based rational thought.

Poking around a bit there I found a posting by someone, claiming to read the Bible in the original Hebrew, who cites a contradiction in the books of Samuel. Apparently, two different people are credited with killing Goliath. The poster asks, "where is our inerrant Bible?" And teh hilarity ensues. My favorite response is by a Christian biblical literalist (judging by his/her other posts supporting young earth creationism).

Congregation Narrowly Misses "Large Ensemble Darwin Award"

The congregation of the Cedar Grove Methodist Church, near Thorsby, Alabama selected their pastor, rather than an outside contractor, to oversee the construction of a new church using home-made blueprints based on looking at pictures on the internet. That choice very nearly earned the congregation the coveted Large Ensemble Darwin Award.. According to the pastor, an Invisible Sky God scuttled the award-worthy effort by causing the building to collapse on the wrong day.

"[Because of that meddling Invisible Sky] God nobody was hurt," Pastor Jeff Carroll said. "He chose to let it come down on a Thursday evening when nobody was there."

Although a deity interfered in the process, the pastor had been successful in keeping local authorities from hampering the Darwin attempt. The congregation and volunteers designed and built the new church apparently without filing plans or gaining approval from local or state entities. Carroll, himself a homebuilder, said he was not aware of any requirements and remains unconvinced a government body should have a say in how a church is built. "If the state and the church are separate, I don't understand why they think they've got jurisdiction," he said.

In related news, the Darwin Awards Committee is tracking anyone who continues residing in a home built by Carroll.