Biblical Scientific Contradiction?

Leviticus 11:6 – “And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.”

The rabbit does not chew the cud. It appears to possibly be chewing the cud when it eats, but it is a scientific fact that the hare does not chew the cud in any way shape or form, nor does it have the digestive system that would need it to chew the cud.

One explanation to this biological error is in this nicely written article by Eric Lyons of Apologetics Press:

…critics must acknowledge the fact that we frequently describe things as they appear to take place and not necessarily as they actually happen…what about the rabbit? Why is it listed among the cud chewers? It may be simply because rabbits “appear to chew their food very thoroughly like true ruminants, and this is what the law is insisting on” (Wenham, 1979, p. 172, emp. added). Rabbits move their jaws and wiggle their noses in a way which looks like they are ruminating (Harris, 1990, 2:571). In fact, so convincing is this appearance that, according to Walter Kaiser, “Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), to whom we owe the modern system of biological classification, at first classified the coney and the hare as ruminants” (Kaiser, et al., 1996, p. 158; cf. Keil and Delitzsch, 1996). In short, it may be that rabbits were listed as “cud chewers” based on simple observation.

So the writer of Leviticus wrote that the rabbit chews the cud because it looks like it does? Obviously! With this explanation, saying that the writer was only writing on the appearance of things, it gives us the opportunity to rule out any needed inspiration of God. As a matter of fact, it proves that there is no inspiration from God in this passage! What a terrible way to try to explain this “biological blunder”!