Apologetics is exactly that tackattack, a way to try and conform the bible to modern times through various interpretations and manipulating text to mean other than what they plainly mean. When it is out of synche with reality it is allegorized or typified to mean something other than what is written there. When I was a believer I was a literalist and I noticed that when a text read literally was contradicted by science then it's meaning was changed to conform.
The so called 7 days of creation were believed to be 7 literal days and calculating the time from the tale of Eden to today it came out to about 7,000 years. But when science said that the universe is believed to be about 13.7 billion year the apologists then allegorized the tale of creation and stated that in Genesis 1:1 and verse 2 there is a gap of an undetermined amount of time that could account for the age of the Earth. The believers are trying to keep their bible relevant with the times and account for some of the scientific discoveries that expose the glaring scientific fallacies in your "holy" writ.
The so called 7 days of creation were believed to be 7 literal days and calculating the time from the tale of Eden to today it came out to about 7,000 years. But when science said that the universe is believed to be about 13.7 billion year the apologists then allegorized the tale of creation and stated that in Genesis 1:1 and verse 2 there is a gap of an undetermined amount of time that could account for the age of the Earth. The believers are trying to keep their bible relevant with the times and account for some of the scientific discoveries that expose the glaring scientific fallacies in your "holy" writ.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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