False Dichotomies

My question for Wiley et al. is this: what is the basis for your cartoon here? The existence of dinosaurs preceding humans in no way contradicts the chronology of the creation narratives found in Genesis 1-2 and totally misses the point of the narratives. The Hebrew word for day used in Genesis, yom, can mean in the context of Genesis, a period of time and also an event, as in a creative event. So here we apparently have yet another attempt to create a false dichotomy between the creation narratives and science. Why? Simply put, Genesis was never written as or intended to be a book of science so don’t treat it as such. Read it for what it is.

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