(March 17, 2013 at 10:18 pm)jstrodel Wrote: ...
But people have been interpreting Genesis non-literally for thousands of years. Your are presupposing that Genesis actually teaches a Young Earth. There are actually two stories in Genesis, Adam's name means simply man and there are other textual clues that say that that Genesis could be understood non-literally. You want Genesis to teach a Young Earth so you can say that science disproves Christianity, but you don't care about the many people such as the 48% of seminary professors that accept evolutionary theory and don't believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis.
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Rather as miracles are magic and therefore impossible none of the books of the OT pass the giggle test long before invoking science. The reality that everyone learns while growing up and learning fairy tales are just that says they are all fantasy.
