Quote Originally Posted by ajaxfetish View Post
The original manuscripts of the bible are not now available for study and translation, nor were they when the KJV was created. For that matter, much of the bible was not originally written in Hebrew. The KJV relied heavily on earlier English translations, such as Tyndale's, which in turn relied heavily on the Latin vulgate, which in turn relied heavily (IIRC) on the Septuagint for its old testament text and which was translated from manuscripts which had already been through numerous transcriptions. As I understand it, some recent translations have had access to older manuscripts than the KJV, so trusting KJV over other translations makes no sense.
Correct except for one point. Jerome did learn Hebrew eventually, and the majoriety of the Vulgate Old Testemant was directly translated with reference to Jewish tradition rather than Greek.

I can think of some really good reasons to be unconvinced by evolution or the Big Bang, but thus far I think they're as close as we've got and the Bible has nothing to do with it either way.