[atlaw]

I take it that, in your view, the Genesis accounts contain no allegory or metaphor, and are both literal and subject to a single, self-evident interpretation. Is that correct?

[MrB]

regardless of literal versus allegorical interpretation,

there are certain concepts that are essential to the Christian faith in Genesis.

One of these is the effect of sin, what the world was like before sin (”Very Good”, no death, disease, predation, every creature a vegetarian), and what happened after the Fall, requiring the Savior.

So, if “allegory” is the answer in order to

***conform the Bible to Man’s interpretation***

of his observations of nature,

then these specifics are to be dismissed?

You have to dismiss the “very good” description of creation in order for the “God used evolution” assertion.