STOP PRESS - The Bible doesnt make sense!

If there really is a God, so intelligent that he designed the universe and all that is in it, and so omnipresent that he can see and hear everything that each of us ever does or think, then there's a problem with the Bible. Because the Bible makes so many basic mistakes - the sort of thing that a 12 year old nowadays would be able to see are just wrong (sun goes round the earth; earth made in 6 days; that sort of thing).

So, there's two explanations. First, the Bible isn't actually the word of God, its just the ramblings of deluded bronze-age tribes in the middle east who just didn't understand how things work and are saying what they (not some god) thought to be the truth at the time. Secondly, it has all come from God, but he must have known that he was having a joke - because he is so intelligent that he would know it was all wrong.

So, in either case, its a bit silly to lead your life by the Bible - you're either living by stone age morals or you're unwittingly part of a great cosmic joke. And what a book to lead your life by - full of instructions from God to murder, rape, abuse women, be bigoted, commit genocide, kill people for working on Sundays, all that sort of evil stuff. I really do wonder whether the folk who say that this book rules their life have ever actually read it - all of it, not just the bits they like.