Hello Adrian,
Before spending discussing this subject matter further with you, it would be
very helpful to know where you are coming from so to speak. For something you
said at the end of your last post concerns me.
You wrote: [You] reject a literal reading of the 6-days of creation.
Which findings of modern science do you accept? An approximately 14 billion
year old universe? An approximately 4.6 billion year old earth. Life on earth
having existed for about 4 billion years? All life now on earth has descended
and evolved from a common ancestor? Anatomically modern man's existence for
at some 100,000 years? Australia being continually inhabited for the last
30,000 years? North America being continually inhabited for the last 15,000
years? The fact that activities which Gen. 3 and 4 tell us Adam and his
immediate descendants engaged in, like raising crops, herding animals,
building cities and forging metals, did not take place anywhere on earth more
than 10,000 years ago?
Thanks. I'll be better able to answer your questions if I know which of these
findings of modern science you now accept.
In Christ,
Mike
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