  Skeptics deceiving people about the Bible  November 19, 2012
The Daily Mining Gazette  To the editor:  Everybody "knows" that
the forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
was an apple. However, the apple is not mentioned anywhere in
the Bible.  The one exception is a mistranslation in some
versions of the Bible where "apple of the eye" is part of the
one sentence in the Old Testament. The correct translation is
"core of the eye" but it has nothing to do with apple cores.  I
mentioned that because of this false statement about the Bible
in a letter in the Nov. 6 Daily Mining Gazette: "Galileo with
his telescope proves the Christian Bible doesn't always tell the
truth." No explanation was given to support the outrageous
claim.  In 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo was forced by the
Inquisition to recant his belief in the Copernican theory that
the earth orbited the sun. (Polish scholar Nicolaus Copernicus
publicized his theory i n 1543). It contradicted church doctrine
at that time.  As with