re: #174 sagehen

Only if they have the reading comprehension level of an 8-year-old.

The Book of Genesis has two creation stories — contradictory stories, that use different methods and do things in different order. Clearly the author editors did not intend either story to be taken as a literal recounting.

Metaphor and allegory are not modern inventions.

Minor correction. It’s much more likely that there are two creation myths in there because there was, at some point, a blending of two separate, somewhat related stories.