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To: sentis1; quiverfull
If you don’t take all things in the Bible as literal why would you possibly take the Genesis account of creation as anything but an allegory.

I can't speak for Christians, but Jewish scholars of all demonations have tended to view Genesis as allegory for at least a thousand years. This is why even the most Orthodox have tended not to see a conflict with evolution. A minority of the Orthodox (and a miniscule minority of the overall Jewish population) do cling to creationism, but even they don't take Genesis as a strictly literal accounting. I would be shocked if there were a dozen Jews on the planet who believed the earth was 6000 years old.

Now maybe the Jews are crazy... after all, what could Jews possibly know about the Torah?

132 posted on 06/17/2007 10:08:32 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker
I would be shocked if it took a huge contingent of Hebrews 40 years to traverse a desert which can be walked aross in a handful of days.
141 posted on 06/17/2007 10:17:10 PM PDT by Cedric
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