re: #235 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Sometimes one sees quotes from Augustine allegedly against the over literal interpretation of Genesis.

The problem is, Augustine was still a YEC who believed in the literal Adam and Eve and for whom it was clear that the Biblical genealogies establish the age of Earth at around 6000 years. No, literalism (of admittedly varying degrees) is not some fundie invention. It’s been there from the start.

And yet you don’t see in Scripture “And in the NNth Year of Creation” it had to be calculated from the genealogies.