A Rainbow for the Right?

You may soon find some of the same people who foam at the mouth at the sight of a pride flag trying to beat you over the head with a rainbow of their own:

A vast network of more than 63,000 connections woven throughout the Bible is drawing renewed attention from believers, with some arguing the intricate links point to divine authorship.

The connections, identified by a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and a Lutheran pastor in Germany, stretch across all 66 books of scripture, linking people, events and themes scattered throughout the Old and New Testaments.

Researchers transformed these connections into a visualization that lays out every chapter from Genesis to Revelation along a single line. Each vertical bar represents a chapter, with taller bars marking sections that contain more verses.

Thousands of curved lines stretch between books to link related passages, with darker lines highlighting verses that share the greatest number of connections. The arcs form a rainbow-like pattern that visually reveals how extensively the Bible is woven together from beginning to end.

Add a little motivated reasoning to the huge number of these vague "connections," a pattern that happens to resemble the rainbow after the Great Flood, and the kind of willful blindness to obvious alternative explanations that would make Tucker Carlson blush, and you have a sort of mini-Young Earth type of "theory:"

One user posted on X: 'That's literally impossible: you can't get 20 people in a room and tell them to write an essay about one topic and get agreement.'

In a video shared by Silverdale Baptist Church in Tennessee, pastor Tony Walliser highlighted how the Bible connects stories across generations while focusing on a central figure, Jesus.

'Now, let me ask you how that just happened?' Walliser said in the video. 'You go wow, it must have had a major, amazing general editor, yeah, it did: God.'

Wait a minute. I thought the Bible was of divine authorship and that god is perfect. But here he is having to edit his work! Hmmmm.

Speaking of contradictions, the fact that the Bible contradicts itself hundreds of times comes up nowhere in the story and will surely be deemed irrelevant (if it comes up at all) by the sort of people who will tout this "analysis" as the kind of "proof" religion has never, and will never, provide.

-- CAV