[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I think you missed my point. The first two chapters of Genesis give differing and conflicting accounts of creation, pointing up the idea that, as AGDee says, maybe, just maybe, they are not to be taken literally.

Maybe I did. I just thought you were asking what part of Genesis was I reading. I also read the part about the conflicting views too. I was actually looking at all of it. How everything was created. And yeah, I totally agree with you. I wouldn't take the Bible literally. It's just knowing what to take literally and what not to.

The way I view the process of creation is so far off from the way the Bible describes it. Of course no one knows how everything started. We can only have an idea. I would just rather follow the clues that the present day gives to have an idea of how it all started. A lot of it is common sense. Ya know, the whole thing about man being made from dirt/clay and a woman being made from his rib...that sort of thing just doesn't make sense to me.