Russ my computer is struggling to play this. But it sounds to me like more along the lines of, "it's true because the Bible says so."

By the way, are you going to have a look at Glenn Morton's site? He's got some interesting things to say about the reaction of creationists when he presented his crisis of faith to them.

You asked for evidence that there are contradictions in the Bible. I am honestly not interested in debating tiny details but plenty of others have pointed them out. Presumably you can look up the references yourself and see what they are talking about. Here is one site among many: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/

The categories to choose from are Fatal Biblical Flaws, Biblical Absurdities, Bible Atrocities, Bible Inconsistencies, Bible Precepts, and Bible Vulgarities and Obscenities. Where would you like to start?

Mainstream Christianity does not have a problem with these things. The problems come when a person chooses to take everything in the Bible as literal fact and sets up that false dichotomy where you either read the Bible that way, or the whole thing is invalidated. Ask Glenn Morton about this, it gave him a lot of trouble while he was staring at 30,000 feet of sedimentary rock that creationist-brain told him was impossible and scientific-brain understood to have needed a very long time to have formed.