Science, Inspiration, and Flat-Earth Discussion

This is a follow-up discussion to Will Barlow’s Scripture and Science class, part 2: Background on Genesis One. If you haven’t watched or listened to that yet, you can go here or find it on the Restitutio podcast feed as episode 459 on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Sean Finnegan and Will Barlow discuss how the bible talks about science. They cover the documentary hypothesis, inspiration theories, and the apparent flat-earth cosmology of ancient people.

Questions:

Should we expect the bible to speak accurately about science? You said no. Explain that.
You spent much of the time thinking about and retelling the story of the children of Israel going down to Egypt, how they were enslaved, how God raised up Moses, and how he led them out. Why did you do that? What does Exodus have to do with Genesis? Didn’t Genesis happen before Exodus?
Early on, you mentioned the Documentary Hypothesis of Julius Wellhausen. When I went to seminary, that way of slicing up the Torah was considered dogma (even though it completely undermined the veracity of scripture). Questioning it was seen as intellectual suicide. Can you give some reasons why don’t find the Documentary Hypothesis to be convincing?
I’m not sure what your theory of inspiration is, but I’m guessing you don’t believe God dictated the sacred history contained in the book of Genesis to Moses, right? How do you think it worked?
In a world without streaming shows and movies and short addicting videos, people told stories–in person. Would you agree that much of the history contained in Genesis was oral tradition, passed on from generation to generation.
If you believe that Genesis, especially chapter 1, was the result of oral tradition, how can we have any confidence that it’s true?
You said the bible, along with other creation literature from the time, teaches that the world is flat and that there’s a solid dome suspended from which is rains. You also said that we don’t have to believe that ourselves. Are you saying we shouldn’t trust the bible?
If the bible is wrong about science, how do we know it isn’t wrong about other subjects?