[SedVictaCatoni]

>>Genesis isn't really all that long.

It's not the length... its the depth. : )

What depth? The explanation given for how God created the heavens, earth, and various creatures is little more than a few paragraphs long. If you take it literally, as pro-creationists tend to do (by definition), then it's a very short and very straightforward explanation.

[RightWhale]

The explanation given for how God created the heavens, earth, and various creatures is little more than a few paragraphs long.

Right, but it doesn't stop there. In the 2nd chapter there is a different version of the story. And then later there is John, and that is a whole different tradition. It gets very deep, or we can compartmentalize.

[new cruelty]

...then it's a very short and very straightforward explanation.

All those hours in Sunday school and I could have been outside playing ball. Damn.