BTW, what groups are *Biblical literalists*? I have yet to meet anyone who demands that one has to take the whole Bible as literal or not at all, besides an evo. I know of no religious people or group that does that.
It's admittedly a broad brush. By 'literalist' I meant not any particular denomination, but some of the evangelicals who insist that the Earth must be only 6000 years old because of the genealogies in Genesis; and draw the conclusion that dinosaurs must have been in the Garden of Eden.
Some of the more extreme have even chastised C.S. Lewis as being a tool of Satan for incorporating mythological creatures and demi-gods into Narnia. See this site for example.
Or for another example of the kind of mouth-shooting-off, the late Keith Green once wrote a tract denouncing the use of the neutron bomb, because it would be ineffective. IIRC, the tract said something like, "I don't know about you, but if I knew I had only 24 hours to live, I'd fight harder than ever."
Had he even considered talking to a doctor or looking up non-classified sources on the effects of neutron irradiation on the human body?
Cheers!
Even I, Elsie the Great, with my Scripture posts, don't say this!