(November 21, 2022 at 7:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 21, 2022 at 7:13 pm)Belacqua Wrote: 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
Yes, Augustone does matter because it directly refutes the point you were making. There are important early Christians that did not consider Genesis a literal account. Augustine is one. Origen is another.
Yes, there are many Ken Hamm types. And I cannot speak for @Belacqua, but when I do have a chance to engage respectfully with a fundamentalist, I point them in the same direction as I do those atheists who mistakenly assume that if the bible is not true in any respect (like cosmology), that it cannot be reliable guide in any other respect, like spiritual instruction.
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