(November 21, 2022 at 7:13 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(November 21, 2022 at 2:25 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Prior to Hutton, believers took Genesis literally; why not just abandon it and see all of it for what it is, bronze-age mythologies?
I don't know who Hutton is, but Augustine said very clearly that Genesis is not literal.
James Hutton was a Scottish geologist and the essential founder of uniformitarianism (the idea that changes in the Earth’s crust occur over immensely long periods of time, which pretty well discredits YEC).
It doesn’t really matter (for purposes of this discussion) what Augustine of Hippo had to say about Genesis.
Boru
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