> From: "glenn morton" <glenn.morton@btinternet.com>
>
> BY NIGEL HAWKES HEALTH EDITOR
>
> "WOMEN were the complete article long before men, a new study has shown.
>
>
> The result overturns the Biblical description of women being created from a
> spare rib left over from a man, and suggests that if Eve ever did meet Adam
> she was slumming it, genetically speaking.
>
We ought to rend our clothes and weep--not that this might conflict
with a superficial reading of the biblical text, but that we
Christians have done so poorly at communicating the gospel and the
most elementary of biblical hermaneutics that a presumably
well-educated person could say "overturns" without turning red in the
face.
It no more overturns the biblical description than if Yuri Gugarin or
any other astronaut/cosmonaut would have overturned the biblical
description of the firmament (as a hard dome) when he flew into space
and found there was no dome. It should overturn a simplistic reading
of the text.
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