(January 23, 2015 at 8:14 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: I believe Drich is arguing that the genealogies can start when Adam and Eve leave the Garden of Eden? So Adam lived 930 years outside the Garden of Eden and millions or billions of years inside the Garden of Eden?That seems to be his point. I consider it another form of the "gaps" style of arguing. Between "it doesn't say otherwise" and "it could have happened" you can fit an enormous amount of expository content into your holy book to try and paper over any holes in the narrative. This kind of reading-between-the-lines seems common; you can refer to the different cultures of the time, or the different language and language uses, or any other way of adding additional meaning than what the words just say.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould