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Biblical Creationism
does not adequately address
the many facets of
the emergence of biological life
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Biblical creationism is a weak and fragile reed upon which to build the weighty concepts of the emergence of life in this world.
This popular theory among fundamentalist Christians earns our respect for insisting that expressions of life on planet Earth are far too complex to issue as accidental phenomena of randomness. But elements of agreement, thereafter, quickly thin out and become attenuated.
From personal experience, over decades, I understand the fundamentalist impetus to “defend” the Bible as infallible, inerrant. I attempted to do this for a long time. But this is an indefensible position. See my extensive writings on the “Bible.”
Editor’s note: Some churches, while preaching a literal creation week of seven days, attempt to salvage some semblance of scientific demeanor with a claim that the Bible allows for a universe as billions of years old. They do this by positing an undefined space of time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. It’s called “The Gap Theory.”
According to this teaching, during the “gap,” somewhere in the dim primordial eons, Satan rebelled against God and, in the ensuing battle, caused all the pock-marks on the Moon and other astral bodies. This idea quickly declares bankruptcy because there is no such creature as Satan, and there is no "lake of fire" as his fate. It's all metaphor and mythology. See my writings on these topics.
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