Moorad Alexanian wrote:
> Genesis answers questions that need not be scientific. For instance, where
> did I come from? If I could look into the past, what will I find? One can
> treat those questions as if they were scientific questions and try to answer
> them. But the answers may lie outside the purview of science. Moorad
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Andrews <gandrews@as.wm.edu>
> To: vernon.jenkins@virgin.net <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net>
> Cc: bergerd@bluffton.edu <bergerd@bluffton.edu>; asa@calvin.edu
> <asa@calvin.edu>
> Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Incarnational theology, was RE: Accepting Genesis 1 as
> scientifictruth
>
> >>
> >
> >Hi Vernon;
> >
> >You wrote to Dan;
> >
> >> To insist that Genesis 1 is a 'scientific statement', and to be treated
> >> as such, is, I believe, incorrect. I suggest that God intended all
> >> generations of men to accept it verbatim as an account of how things
> >> began by divine fiat.
> >>
> >
> >But to take it verbatim destroys any rationality of its message from two
> stand
> >points: 1) internally, i.e. sun on 4th day when three days have past,
> etc., and
> >2) scientifically, i.e. doesn't line up with data as we presently have.
> >
> >George
> >
Perhaps I misunderstood your original post to Dan. I thought you were arguing
for a literal solar day read of Genesis. I agree with this post that Genesis is
not meant to answer scientific questions and does not - in any way - relate to
the modern scientific world view - which is precisely why we can not take it
"verbatim".
Cheers
George
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