re: #18 Slumbering Behemoth

Amazingly, that’s sort of what it all boils down to.

Some of them are very, very well educated, as far as traditionalism and classics (theology, Greek & Latin, philosophy) are concerned. Multi-syllabic words are no problem; extensive grammatically correct English in its full Germanic glory - no problem.

Yet the back flips needed to defend the idea that a literal Adam and Eve are absolutely required defies any rational explanation. That’s why I contend that creationism is a mental illness - it really is a distortion of the human ability to perceive the world around them with their senses. Even the ancient Greeks had come to the conclusion that things change and they had no modern tools for analysis.