Skeptics Annotated Bible
The Skeptics Annotated Bible is an online text of the Bible containing annotations intended for skeptics and atheists. It is edited by Steve Wells, and also contains an annotated Quran and Book of Mormon. Mr. Wells has a B.S in botany and some graduate courses in mathematics and chemistry.[1] Steve Wells has admitted he is not a Bible scholar.[2]
Contents
The Skeptics Annotated Bible contains the text of the Bible (King James version), with comments alongside many of the Bible verses. Most of these comments are designed to draw attention to alleged absurdities and inconsistencies in the text, despite the fact that the atheist worldview is irrational and absurd (see: Atheism and irrationality and Rebuttals to atheist arguments). The areas of perceived difficulties are broken down into various 'tags'.
Each comment or flag of a particular passage is designed to repeat the simple question, "if this book is the spoken word of God, would this be in it?", yet without taking into account the cultural context in which it was written.
Refutation
The Skeptics Annotated Bible includes many claims which have long since been refuted. For example, it repeats the claim that 1_Kings 7:23 has the wrong value for pi (the Bible doesn't; see here), and an associated link goes to an external page wherein a blogger quotes a brief Internet conversation wherein one person asks how the Bible could be right and the respondent gives a silly reply.
The founder of Christian apologetics site Tektonics has described the quality of argument of the Skeptics Annotated Bible (SAB) as follows:
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