NJ:
Many critics of the bible often don't have a good grasp on it in order to speak authoritatively on the matter.
My experience is otherwise. Many 'critics' of the Bible know the book much better than almost all the people who make extreme claims for it.
Inerrantists often only know their sect's pet prooftexts. Question whether the book of Nahum, for exmaple, is really an infallible, inerrantly inspired book and watch them go to the mat insisting that it is. But ask them what Nahum is about and they can't tell you. They've never read it.
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Archer
All species are transitional.