rlh@cvl.UUCP (Ralph L. Hartley) (02/27/85)
> Perhaps 200 years from now, sunday school teachers will explain: "the > day in Genesis chapter 1 is a metaphor, and the time period represented > could have been millions or billions of years. But don't dwell on > that, read the story itself, and notice that the various entities > appeared in the correct order. First the planet, then life in the > oceans, then animals on land, then humans. You see, the Bible is > Gawd's word, and completely correct. After all, Gawd knew all about > evolution long before any scientist had figured it out ... ". 200 years from now? This argument sounds very familiar somehow. ... Oh, now I remember. I heard it from a sunday school teacher. I sounded fishy then and it sounds fishy now. What particularly botherd me was that I couldn't see any other order that made since. First the creatures that creep on the earth, then the earth itself just wouldn't sound right, would it? Ralph Hartley siesmo!rlgvax!cvl!rlh rlh@cvl.ARPA