Evolution and Christianity and Salvation

[Mister Agenda]

You 'it could have happened this way' anything, Drich. Do you have evidence that atheist laymen overrode the critical Biblical scholars? Do you have evidence that ANY of the laymen were atheists? In 1985 if the laymen were picked completely randomly from the general population, you'd expect one or two to be atheists; but the term 'laymen' in this case seems to indicate 'non-clergy members of a church. You've done your homework, so it should be easy for you find out the actual tallies. It would be interesting in any case to learn which passages were agreed to be historical by all 50 scholars and were yet overridden by the laymen. I'd bet it was more likely to be the other way around, the 100 laymen would be more likely to think a passage was historical than the scholars.