No. 2: Genesis

There are literally dozens of events described in the Bible that make its literal interpretation seem ridiculous. God created light before he created the Sun seems almost humorous as does a man living for three days in the belly of a fish. Yet, for every improbable account in the Bible there is a literalist Christian explanation. They have had two thousand years to develop their responses to the improbabilities within the Bible but in some cases these responses are more ridiculous than the biblical words they are trying to defend.

How did God create light before he created the Sun? "On day one he set electrons in motion, whereby He caused atoms to begin producing the 'pure' form of light that our science calls 'photons'." Oddly, the only way this Christian response could be developed is because scientists, using the scientific method devised the wave and particle theories of light. This example uses terms out of physics yet there is probably not a physicist on Earth that would do more than smile at this response. (From Answers in Genesis)

A tour through the website Answers In Genesis demonstrates how far Bible literalists must go to maintain the 4000 year old planet "theory" critical to a large part of Christian theology. There is one particularly humorous article about the the science of Noah's Ark. They actually provide their explanations without resorting to miracles. They allocate space for 16,000 animals. Presumably 8,000 species that would evolve into the millions of species we know of today. (This also assumes that the part of the Bible that describes 7 of each species is just a misprint). Twelve U.S. tons of animal waste was produced daily (according to AIG). Noah's family must have been pretty busy shoveling.

Fortunately, Noah only took young animals and they ate a bare subsistence diet that was stored, somewhere. When Noah's family wasn't busy shoveling manure they must have been feeding 16,000 animals. That was a long 40 days.

Carnivorous dinosaurs on the Ark ate reconstituted dried meat and possibly giant tortoises. It is unclear why dinosaurs would have to be on the Arc. Couldn't they just be left to die in the flood? (http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n2/caring-for-the-animals).

Ultimately, the real problem with Genesis is that Pauline Christianity is entirely dependent on the original sin narrative. This is what Christ died to forgive. Without original sin, Christianity has no purpose. While Jews are free to give varying and quasi scientific explanations for the Genesis stories, Christians really must stick with the original, unaltered. Otherwise, Christianity is just a farce. What geology, biology, and astronomy have demonstrated is that these Christian beliefs are just myths and the religion is just a farce.