Insert proven biblical mistranslations here

Along the same lines as mistranslations is a phenomenon I have noticed in conversation about biblical trivia. A lot of seemingly intelligent Bible believers point to Methuselah as the oldest person who ever lived just because he is the oldest person mentioned in the Bible. I pointed this out to a Bible scholar once and his facial expression said "Eureka! There were other lines of descent from Adam." The thought had never occurred to him. In fact I heard Jesse Jackson point that out in a sermon I saw of his on television. And of course I had heard it as a child as well and never questioned it back then. To me that reveals a shocking level of shortsightedness in religion.