Bats are birds  From Iron Chariots Wiki Jump to: navigation,
search  Bats are birds is a reference to a passage in the Old
Testament:  "(11)Of all clean birds ye shall eat. (12)But these
are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the
ossifrage, and the ospray, (13)And the glede, and the kite, and
the vulture after his kind, (14)And every raven after his kind,
(15)And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the
hawk after his kind, (16)The little owl, and the great owl, and
the swan, (17)And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the
cormorant, (18)And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and
the lapwing, and the bat." Deuteronomy 14:11-18 Bible-icon.png
Bats are mammals in the order Chiroptera, a fact that is
commonly used as an example of Biblical passages that contradict
science.       • Ancient authors didn't have the benefit of
modern taxonomy.   • Ancient taxonomic systems are equally valid
as modern taxonomy, so the Bible isn't actually wrong. [1]     •
Even in ancient times, there w