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Originally posted by preciousjeni
All your points are well taken, but I wanted to clarify my stance on this one. I'm not saying that Genesis is myth. I'm saying that it is in mythic history meaning, from a literary point of view, the time frame cannot be determined and we have absolutely no literature from any person from the period. We have the result of oral tradition.
Scriptural origin (beginning) and eschatology (end) writings must be considered in the context in which they're written. We can neither prove nor disprove whether or not they are literal. So, believing that they are literal is just as accurate as believing that they are not (though many, I'm sure, will disagree). In fact, some of the writings could be both literal and metaphoric.
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Thanks for the clarification.
I'd rather discuss this topic with you than with SOME folks around heerah because you and I would have some interesting discourse...
The "fact is"
that the way science is practiced today that we take EVERYTHING literally and not with belief... Maybe science practiced during Darwin's time was not practiced that way, for sure, but the way it is practiced to day, you cannot DO science with a grant or fellowship without PROOF... That's the way the game is played in our "corner of the Universe".
