"From a secular viewpoint, this means that the people who wrote it couldn't discuss concepts that were conceived after their deaths"
This religion is revelated. The Bible is supposed to have been written not by humans,but was "given" by God to the people writing it.
So I suppose that in His view, he could have decided to leave plenty of things in the dark. But, even considering that people would eventuelly learn and use Science ?
And why didn't He choose the other way around ? Give out plenty of extra-advanced concepts, only understandable after humanity has evolced to a certain point ?
It is really difficult to justify those kind of reasonning in the "revelated" perspective;
Of course, when you consider a point of view in which the Bible was written by human beings, it is suddendly easier to explain all the decrepancies. But can this point of view be accepted by a true believer ??
This is why I tend to consider religion as inefficient in the way of conveying their "workload". Science is much more efficient in that respect, with suspension of belief, and accepting the unknown.
On the whole, I agree with you.
