Posted: Aug 21, 2018 12:14 pm
Calilasseia wrote:
So why do so many creationists treat it as a work of scientific and historical fact?
I think because they do read Genesis as history rather than as theology. There are books in the Bible that are essentially chronicles of events happening in the Levant. Genesis, however, is not one of them. It is a creation myth used to explain God's purposes. Nobody in the ancient world actually believed there was literally a "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" or a talking snake. These would have been interpreted allegorically. But Protestant fundamentalism insists that every word in the Bible is the literal truth. However, not all creationists see it that way. Progressive creationists and ID creationists are not inclined to think that way.