They are “history” that does not mean they are chronological. They tell us that God made the natural world and in a general sense in the same order that natural history does. The Creation stories do not contradict science. The theory of Evolution only contradicts Scripture if it denies the fact of a Creator.
They are “history” that does not mean they are chronological. They tell us that God made the natural world and in a general sense in the same order that natural history does. The Creation stories do not contradict science. The theory of Evolution only contradicts Scripture if it denies the fact of a Creator.And so we come full circle. You entered this conversation with me posing as someone who rejected modern compromises with Biblical criticism, and hear you parrot the whole line.
Evidently you refuse to understand my whole point. If you "allegorize" the "creation stories" then you must allegorize every event related by the Torah as a non-historical didactic parable, or else be a hypocrite. And that's just what you are.