Doesnt the bible say insects go on all fours?
Where does that put extreme Inerrancy?
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard J. Van Till" <hvantill@novagate.com>
To: "Jim Eisele" <jeisele@starpower.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Genesis One that Fits
>
> >From: "Jim Eisele" <jeisele@starpower.net>
>
> > However, I am uncomfortable mashing the Bible with science. Let the
Bible
> > be the Bible.
>
> Yes, much noise & heat could be avoided by doing exactly that. If we "Let
> the Bible be the Bible" we would stop forcing that text, written in the
> Ancient Near Eastern and Greek/Roman conceptual vocabularies and written
to
> address the questions of that day, to provide simple and unambiguous
answers
> to modern scientific questions. We would stop trying to settle the endless
> and futile arguments over the age of the universe or the adequacy of
> evolutionary theories by (pious but misguided) appeal to the biblical
text.
>
> Yes, by all means, let the Bible be the Bible.
>
> Howard Van Till
>
>
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