It's funny. A theology dean/author and I sent a couple emails back and forth today about issues just like this. I wish more Christians would stop believing that the only way to understand the Bible, or any of its underlying messages, is by taking it at face value and not even being open to the idea that it can be reconciled with scientific facts that most of the world has seem to come to accept by now. As the dean told me today, clearly some of the Bible was not meant to be read literally in the first place, and while some other parts were thought to be literally true at the time, we know now that the writers were wrong -- or, at the very least, simply not trying to construct a scientific hypothesis. I'm definitely not one of those who think that the acknowledgement of science requires the abandonment of belief, but that of course puts me at odds with folks on both sides of the issue.
As to Bushie's post... I'm sorry, but I can't believe that was actually typed by human hands
... but I suppose we all just have to agree to disagree, at some point...
