(December 31, 2010 at 4:19 pm)Stempy Wrote: That is what we need to do with Genesis 1, just like any other piece of ancient or modern literature. We need to ask the basic questions: What type of literature is this? Who is the audience? How would they have understood this language? Without those giving us a framework, casual dismissal of Biblical literature because it contains language that we are not used to or statements that we don't understand in our modern paradigms is baseless (and actually a form of cultural discrimination).
Stempy
The genesis is a ancient proto-euroasiatic myth about abandoning hunting for farming, yes that's the original sin, Farming.
