re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Evolution is flawed, therefore everything written in this 4,000-year-old book is the literal truth

Ironclad logic

Sadly, most of the people putting all their trust in this 4,000-year-old book haven’t actually read it.

Genesis Ch 1 is a creation narrative, starts from nothing and goes through various steps to end up at PEOPLE.

Genesis Ch 2 loops back to the beginning and does another creation narrative, starting from nothing and goes through various steps to end up at PEOPLE.

But the steps in Ch 1 and the steps in Ch 2 happen in a different order, and use different methods. Which to anyone whose reading comprehension is higher than 3rd-grade level, would take as a flashing neon sign, right there in the text itself, that neither narrative was intended to be taken as a literal, factual recounting of events.

Metaphor is not a modern invention.