We're the only ape that clothes themselves to hide our parts. Perhaps that's what distinguishes humans from the other apes, except that we're also the only ape that intentionally destroys its own environment, along with all of the other creatures we take along with us.
The other thing to consider is that all religious texts evolve on their own. The words "and the glory" in "The Lord's Prayer" are thought to have been copied into a manuscript because some monk had written it in the margin. The King James version is the most widely used of any version in the US, yet it was revised to its current form for political reasons.
Most people I've encountered get a deer in the headlights look when discussing multiple versions of the bible. They just can't wrap their heads around the idea that there could be more than one. There are a shitload of different versions and we've got at least a dozen. I've seen several, well, I guess you could call them family trees of the versions, but the lineage is amazing. With all of the versions, inclusions, exclusions, modifications, translations, translations OF translations, how can we really know what the definitive word really is?
The answer simply is, we can't.
It isn't just the bible. Any writing left to time will evolve through language translation and the dialect of the current time. George Washington cut down a cherry tree in older history books. The reality is that it was an anectdote to support his integrity. In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He didn't discover America. The Nordic sailors were here long before that.
Davy Crocket never killed a bear by grinning it to death either. So much of what is taught as "history" is based on legend and stories passed down and modified with time. In the relatively short time that Europeans have been on this continent, even our own history of the time has evolved, been updated, and much of it disputed. Superimpose that problem on the entire history of the universe and you've got a distortion of, well, biblical proportions.
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