Aron Ra on The argument from scripture
Aron Ra argues that the Bible's scientific claims are demonstrably false, undermining any claim to divine authorship.
Aron Ra approaches the argument from scripture primarily through the lens of science education. Where Barker focuses on internal contradictions and Dillahunty on epistemology, Ra zeroes in on the Bible's factual claims about the natural world — and shows they are wrong.
The Bible describes a flat earth under a solid dome (the firmament), a global flood that left no geological evidence, a six-day creation that contradicts every branch of natural science, and an age of the earth that is off by a factor of roughly 750,000. These are not metaphors, Ra argues — they reflect the genuine cosmology of the ancient Near East, and they are precisely what we would expect from human authors writing in the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Ra's argument is simple: a book written or inspired by an omniscient being would not contain scientific errors. The Bible contains scientific errors. Therefore it was not written or inspired by an omniscient being. The argument from scripture collapses at the first premise.
“The Bible does not contain one single piece of scientific knowledge that was not already known to the people who wrote it. Not one.”