Re: Grounds for disbelief

From: Dick Fischer (dickfischer@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 16:06:36 EDT

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Hi Louise, you wrote:

>I just read Pennock's Tower of Babel where he mentions that "camel" might
>have
>come about from an eariler copying error of "rope" since the two words
>differ by
>only one letter. Is there any evidence to support that?

"It's easier for a rope to pass through the eye of a needle" than it is to
figure out every possible scribal error. (The part in quotes is an old
Armenian expression.)

Dick Fischer - Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org

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