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If A, then perhaps we have misinterpreted the data based on assumptions about what happened in the past . . .

Or, more likely, misinterpreted scripture.

If B, you have much of modern theology, where we have created God in our own image and can pick and choose from the Bible the statements we wish to believe as it suits us.

A problem I find most acute in the modern phenomonon of Biblical "literalism," along with its marked tendency to fabricate convenient material for the purpose of back-filling Biblical dilemmas.