RE: There are no answers in Genesis
November 21, 2022 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2022 at 3:15 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(November 21, 2022 at 2:10 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Snarky response to the OP: oh, it has answers...just to the questions that do not interest physical reductionists.
Measured response to OP: maybe the purpose of the text is not to provide answers but to prompt the reader to ponder the significance of the story. These stories are very old...what the past wanted us to have. Our ancestor's preserved them for us at great cost because they speak to something vital about the human condition. I would say the same about the ancient texts of other religions as well.
I may be mistaken, but I rather think the OP was - however obliquely - referring to Answers In Genesis, Ken Ham’s ludicrously pseudoscientific attempt to replace science with Biblical literalism.
If one chooses to read Genesis for an analogy regarding ‘something vital about the human condition’, I shan’t quibble. It is not, and was never intended to be, a text on cosmology.
Boru
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