What, pray tell, is "reason?" Does "reason" somehow tell us that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are didactic mythology? In what way is this viewpoint the work of "reason?"
What if "science" were to start making claims about the "new testament," such as that people can't be born without fathers or that dead people can't come back to life? Would you then be as flip as you are when it is the Hebrew Bible that they are attacking?
You Catholics are such hypocrites. You use "science" to discredit the Hebrew Bible because you fear and loathe it. But you slam the dogmatic door shut when "science" starts making claims about your precious "holy book." If that isn't the dictionary definition of hypocrisy I don't know what is.
You'll never understand, will you, that there is a culture in Rural America whose devotion to the historicity of the "old testament" is as great as your devotion to the historicity of the saints? But Catholic literature, which is so understanding toward totem poles and indigenous paganism, condemns rural American Biblicism with full force. Evidently there is room in your religion for everything but the Bible (except as didactic or chr*stological mythology).