(October 16, 2018 at 6:02 am)Kit Wrote:(October 16, 2018 at 5:59 am)Belaqua Wrote: Yes, a literal reading of Genesis is untenable.
A non-literal reading doesn't make it reliable, does it? Makes it more credible to be fiction by usage of metaphorical convolution.
Do you think it needs to be "reliable" in a non-mythic, non-problematical way? Some stories are meant to be challenges, not science texts.