A Gish Gallop is a fallacy in which numerous fallacious or otherwise incorrect arguments are used to support a conclusion, burying the opponent in individually weak arguments, and causing refutation to become very difficult. Usually each point in a Gish Gallop is trivially created or obtained, thereby making the creation of a Gish Gallop generally easier than a refutation of one. I will be attempting to create a Gish Gallop that supports the position that the Torah is not divine, a position I very strongly denounce. The gallop will consist of eleven points, and after it's done I'll show you how I did it. Finally, in case you think my points were compelling, at the end, I'll include a refutation of each point.
The kosher laws (shellfish and pork forbidden, etc.) were health laws, that, in the ancient Hebrews' limited and fallible knowledge, have been proven to be irrelevant to health. Eating pork and shellfish is not at all unhealthy, and neither is eating blood (in small quantities). Obviously, this shows that authors were fallible and did not know that modern science would easily disprove their outdated practices.
The flood story is very, very similar to The Epic of Gilgamesh (which is at least 1,500 years older than the Bible), because it was simply copying from it. There are also MANY other flood myths from the same time, all with striking similarities. This even extends to the creation myth found in Genesis 1, which also copied off of other earlier myths. You'd think that if the author of the Bible was really infallible, he'd avoid blatant plagarism.
There are thousands and thousands of religions (excluding sub-denominations). Judaism/Christianity/Islam are only THREE of them. If the Bible were really divine, there wouldn't be any other religions, not even more than one Abrahamic one, and no sub-denominations of it. Sadly for theists, this is not the case. We are said to be G-d's, so if that was the case, it would be like a father who never revealed himself to anyone except for a group of street-thugs, who were told to tell their friend that he is their father, and that are amongst thousands of groups who claim that a different person is his father, that he has no father, or that he has multiple fathers. When his son is on his deathbed, the father visits his child and punishes him by torturing him for not believing the group of street-thugs that he is his father. Does this sound merciful or kind to you?
The Bible says that the Canaanites were entirely wiped out, so one should not expect to find any Canaanite DNA in modern people. However, it has been shown that the opposite is true.
"Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of this mother..." - Deuteronomy 27:22. "And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter…it is a wicked thing..." - Leviticus 20:17. Yet Abraham's choice to marry his half-sister Sarah was approved.
"The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father..." Ezekiel 18:20. "I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation..." - Exodus 20:5.