Since the time of Moses, folks had a pretty clear understanding of the exact meaning of Genesis.
It is only since Darwin wrote "Origin of the Species" that the book of Genesis has been considered open for interpretation.
Why, in the course of several thousand years, was no priest bright enough to figure out that Genesis was not written to be read literally?
How did we mere mortals become so intelligent over the last 100 years?
cause if the Bible is the absolute literal word of god than the young earth creationists are right and if they are right our understanding of most any science is complete and total horse chit and voodoo.....if the creation story is exactly as written and not open for interpretation all sciences start falling apart at some point......
if the earth is only thousands instead of billions of years old its not the smartest thing in the world to let a doc preform chemotherapy on you or those you love cause it means we have no real understanding on how to measure radioactive decay which is a huge part of that area of medicine....
Either that........or the entire Judeo/Christian tradition is as mythical as Zeus and Apollo, and the gods of the Egyptian pantheon.
there is always that.....but i have theory on that aswellfor the most part but then that sends this thread off in another direction which was what Razor was trying to avoid by creating this thread
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