Biblical "scholars" have no standards to speak of. Any time any no-montheist takes a myth and interprets it in the most common/logical way, some religious kook finds some obscure passage in another work that allows him to explain away any obvious logical discrepencies.
Bible scholars require no evidence for their beliefs. They just look at what they have - interpret it in the most favorable light (according to their particular sect) and lower their "standard" of evidence. This allows them to wiggle out of any of the myriad of logical impossibilities and contradictions in the Bible and to make any claims they like about it.
And the really funny thing is that it does not matter what the Bible says, because there is no more evidence that it's supernatural creatures exists than any other mythologies...
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Biblical "scholars" have no standards to speak of. Any time any no-montheist takes a myth and interprets it in the most common/logical way, some religious kook finds some obscure passage in another work that allows him to explain away any obvious logical discrepencies. Bible scholars require no evidence for their beliefs. They just look at what they have - interpret it in the most favorable light (according to their particular sect) and lower their "standard" of evidence. This allows them to wiggle out of any of the myriad of logical impossibilities and contradictions in the Bible and to make any claims they like about it. And the really funny thing is that it does not matter what the Bible says, because there is no more evidence that it's supernatural creatures exists than any other mythologies...