To Christians who aren't creationists

[Neo-Scholastic]

I always find it curious when it takes several thousand years for the text to be "interpreted" correctly.

Or to recover what was lost. The text as written reflects the perspective of ancients who thought and spoke in metaphor and could read images the way we read words. I say we need to recover the language of value and meaning that has been lost in the vain quest to force the text into a modern scientific/historical paradigm. The evangelicals forget that the bible's message concerns spiritual matters of life and faith. Not explaining or describing physical phenomena. In this respect, literalists are every bit as materialistic as the actual materialists they oppose.