Rhythm Wrote:Why is genesis "otherwise irreconcilable" -your opinion, not mine, in the case of the fossil record but not in the case of the deluge and the geological record?
I know you didn't mean to imply this, but you ask this question as if Drich has put forth intelligent thought and scientific rigor into his hypothesis. I think a more important question is why god's account of creation needs any additions at all.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell