If you want to continue this as reasonable adults, then just let me know...
I did not mean to insult you, not really. Please excuse me, and I am sorry for that.
Sometimes it takes a bit of sarcasm I think in order to get some attention around here.
I spent many many hours considering the book of Genesis and even a lot more in my College days learning about the higher criticisms of a book that meant so very much to me when I was a much younger man, and certainly still.
I will concede that many of my Professors challenged me in a lot of ways and that for a long time I was shaken in my faith and core beliefs.
If I could not believe in what the Bible had to say, then what else did I have?
In a word...”nothing!”
I’ve read the Book, more than once, and I have attempted to understand it and other things by studying at length. I have also made it a point to learn about certain other things over the years.
I consider myself to be rather informed, but ordinarily, I am not of a contentious nature. FR.com allows me a certain space to be a lot more aggressive and assertive than I ordinarily am in the course of my regular most ordinary life.
I have studied a bit of the sciences of chemistry, anatomy, microbiology, and some others, which I feel gives me some insights to the debates out here concerning the Bible, Evolution, and different Dogma.
I find it frustrating at times to see people posting on things which seem to me often to be either indicative of the fact that they are ill informed, or simply stupid.
I have personally found that the Bible is not at all a difficult collection to understand, yet I see so much posted (here and elsewhere) that is simply not in accord with the actual text.
Please excuse my rudeness earlier. I have had a lot of distractions, and that is not much of an excuse, but for now it is all that I have.