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From: rlh@cvl.UUCP (Ralph L. Hartley)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: retreat into metaphors
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 10:26:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 10:26:39 1985
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> 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
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