[allmendream]

Yes, Psalms. Thanks for the correction.

So you are obviously willing to consider that the language of the Bible is poetic in places where a clear literal meaning would be false; as in the case of the Earth not moving.

How hard is it to move on to other scriptural interpretations that have you trying to figure out how many dinosaurs could fit on the Arc, denying the speed of light, radio-isotopic decay, the fossil record, and the genetic evidence of common descent?

[tpanther]

How hard is it to move on to other scriptural interpretations that have you trying to figure out how many dinosaurs could fit on the Arc, denying the speed of light, radio-isotopic decay, the fossil record, and the genetic evidence of common descent?

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Since we’re examing Biblical scripture and science...

Let me give you a hand...this is an excerpt from the Student Bible when it addresses “How to read Psalms”:

“The richest lessons from Psalms may come from particularly difficult poems you must read again and again until you begin to see what the author had in mind”.

I stumbled across an important Psalm: 36:9.

For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.

An explanation follows:

36:9 Light makes Light

By itself, light is invisible; and yet everything (italics)
is invisible until light strikes it. So it is with God:
we can’t see Him, but “in His light” (under His loving influence) we see and understand His love in all that surrounds us. God’s overwhelming generosity stands in complete contrast to the self-important plotting of wicked human beings.

How hard is it to understand everything (in italics) includes science? How hard is to understand “in all that surrounds us” includes science?

How hard is it to understand His creation and light is much greater than your understanding, of pretty much everything including scientific interpretations of origins, earth age, etc.?

[metmom]

So you are obviously willing to consider that the language of the Bible is poetic in places where a clear literal meaning would be false; as in the case of the Earth not moving.

Well, duh, who doesn't?

You evos are the ones so hung up on the *literalist* label and always insisting that creationists are taking the whole Bible literally, even when we say that we aren't, that we recognize that parts like poetry aren't literal.

The evos are making the argument and chastising people for believing something they don't really believe after all. The evos are chastising people for believing something the evos THINK that they believe.

So, as usual, I'm going to ask for sources of of people or groups of people who don't recognize that all Scripture should not be taken *literally*, Or rather that there are people who demand that all be taken literally and don't recognize that there is stuff like poetry in it.

[metmom]

So you are obviously willing to consider that the language of the Bible is poetic in places where a clear literal meaning would be false; as in the case of the Earth not moving.

Pretty condescending of you, BTW.