Many of you were kind enough to write to me as well as to the net regarding
my question concerning the meaning of the word "creationists." I have found
all the answers very useful. I should like to indicate my own views on
Genesis 1-2.
The Bible is NOT a scientific text. However, the day we know exactly what
happened in the past, then we will realize that what Genesis says is
consistent with it. The main truth I find in Genesis is that there is a
Creator---an Intelligent Designer. Remember that questions about origins or
whatever else happened in the past may not be truly scientific
questions---for all I know they may be purely historical questions.
Therefore, the answer we find in Genesis regarding origins may not please
all scientists; but the question of origins may not have been a scientific
question to begin with. Of course, you can assume that a particular question
is a scientific question and proceed with it, but that is a working
assumption and should not be used as a proof that the question is indeed
within the domains of science.
I may have borrowed the above view on Genesis from the view Isaac Newton had
on the Book of Revelations. Newton said that we must study the Book of
Revelations not in order to make predications of future event, but to know
that such apocalyptic events were already mentioned in Scripture after they
actually happen.
Moorad