From an interview in 1982 with Paul Kurtz; Isaac Asimov was asked: "Do you take the Bible primarily as a human document or do you think it was divinely inspired?" To which he responded: "The Bible is a human document. Much of it is great poetry, and much of it consists of the earliest reasonable history that survives. Samuel I and 2 antedate Herodotus by several centuries. A great deal of the Bi…