There are a lotta reasonable people who are passionate about science. And then they’re taught in church…or strongly encouraged…that they must believe in the literal creation narrative in Genesis, even though it appears to contradict by many orders of magnitude the age of the earth and the universe as determined by science (astrophysics and astronomy, etc.). This creates problems for some, especially when they’re told that they gotta believe ALL of it (literally) in order to believe ANY of it.
Many hundreds of years ago they questioned Galileo because he determined that the earth moved when the Bible said that God set the earth on its pillars and it didn’t move.
Anybody here still think the earth is fixed relative to other planets and stars and galaxies, etc. and doesn’t move…?
Does that mean you don’t believe the Bible…?
You can choose to interpret the Bible in terms of a fixed earth but you don’t have to without the Bible losing its authority. In the same way, you can choose to interpret the Bible in terms of a young earth but you don’t have to without the Bible losing its authority.
This is a huge problem for those who believe God is infallible.
These factual errors in the Bible clearly dispute that belief.
