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Oh, that’s right, you’re the one who wrote that the Bible was “written for” people you described as being “near stone-age.”

It was written by men who were: accomplished astronomers, builders, educators and religious leaders, many of the leading people of that day. These were not unlearned people, and they did not seek to pander to ignorance. They espoused eternal truth, and often came right out and said so.

Even if, as you suppose, that eternal truth was dumbed down somehow, the eternal truth at the base of that basic truth would not be in error, whether interpreted as allegory or literally.

Speaking of “basic,” there are very basic problems with interpreting “yom” to even mean 1,000 years, but I acknowledge that interpretation, as it’s been commonly tossed out in these debates. What sort of lifespan would God’s greatest creature, in His own image, Adam, have to have had, in order to exist until the final day, yom, age, era, eon or whatever you want to spin it into being, in order for the hundreds of millions of years required for evolution to produce man, to work at all? He’s recorded as having days of 930 years. Awfully close to that other understanding of yom. But, not close at all, to the evolutionary necessity, which would be what, 500,000 times that, a millon times that ... or even more?

The answer is, simply, that it doesn’t work. You guys laugh at the lifespans in the antediluvian, Biblical begats, but resort to truly epic ages for absolutely everything, in order to negate Biblical Creation. To pose as some sort of authority regarding the Biblical account of Creation, as a result, is more than just highly suspect.

Furthermore, you’re not just limited to picking apart and contorting Genesis, in this tail-chasing effort at undermining the clear meaning. Jesus Christ was the second Adam. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born into this world as flesh and blood, to provide the final sacrifice, to atone for sin, the Messiah, the fulfillment of the Old Covenant and the basis of the New Covenant. Sin entered this world through the actions of Eve and in turn Adam. Sin resulted in death, which did not exist in the world up to that point. The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross was the final sacrifice, atoning for the spiritual consequences of that sin, removing the necessity of performing sacrifice under the law of the Old Testament.

Death will ultimately be abolished, on Earth, according to the Bible. I guess you’d better get to work, reinterpreting that part, too, since science has no explanation for that, either.

So, hopefully you, and any other person of honesty and goodwill, who genuinely seeks to understand the truth of the Bible, will understand just why I’ll stick with the plain reading of the text. I’ve resorted to the original Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek, when I’ve sought a greater level of understanding. That, it invariably provides. What it does not provide, is cover for those who really don’t want to believe in the God whose Word it represents, in the first place.