While this is off the subject of astronomy, I would like to point out that from a true scientific analysis, it is possible to present evidence supporting the case that the Bible was clearly written by men, without any 'devine inspiriation'.

Genesis, as an example, was written by men in one geographical area on our planet. The entire rest of the world is left out of the historical record except where the Bible writers' had interactions with others.

Doesn't it seem suspicious to you that the Jews, (descendents of Abraham), who wrote the original passages just happen to be the chosen ones? Yet all humans are supposed to be descendents from Adam and Eve, and later from Noah. Genetic evidence now supports the case that we are all one race. Descendents of Abraham are not distinguishable as a different lineage!

Most, if not all, ethnic groups developed religion independently of one another. From an objective viewpoint, none of these religions should have more weight than the others.

Many 'commands from god' in the Bible are arbitrary and inconsistant. Why put forbidden fruit around for people to eat? If you know everything, you would know the people would choose to eat it. These demands for obediance are repeated over and over in different scenes. Punishments vary from nothing to death. I could fill page after page with these types of examples.

Medical science is erroneous throughout the Bible. People with 'lesions' are kept out of the towns by priests. Handwashing would have done 1,000 times more good. Unclean meat shouldn't be eaten. Thorough cooking would have probably been a better idea.

Women are punished when Eve gives forbidden fruit to Adam by having pain with childbirth. So did the devil invent anesthesia? I also think you could study animal brain activity with pain and show some good evidence that pain with the birth of offspring is universal in mammals.

My point is there is sufficient evidence the Bible contains only those beliefs and the available knowledge of the ethnic group(s) writing the documents. I have yet to find anything that implicates an additional source of knowledge in the text.

If it looks like a duck...Or, as we say in medicine, if you hear hoofbeats look for horses not zebras...Or, as with the acceptable scientific principle applied, the simpliest explanation is usually correct.