You are not being accurate or fair here at all, KW. The issue here isn't the Bible or God or science. The issue is your understanding , your interpretation. Everyone views Scripture through a lens. I would bet you are viewing Scripture through the lens of fundamentalist Christianity, which is an anti-intellectual approach. That means what you see of Scripture and what you say about Scripture is very much colored by your theology or ideology. The question then is, How rational and solid is fundamentalist theology? On my end, I reject much of it, because it find it to be making too many irrational assumptions about God and the Bible. Here are a few. Either Scripture is inerrant or it's all errant and therefore worthless. Either-or thinking is unrealistic. Reality is generally a shade of grey. God does not change and so neither do we or anything else in the universe, most especially the species. Irrational. The idea of a wholly immutable God comes from Hellenic philosophy, not Scripture, and can be shown to be irrational in the first place. Here's another. The Bible has to be an accurate scientific witness. Irrational. This view automatically assumes that God intended Scripture to be a scientific witness. However, that assumption can be seriously questioned. It is perfectly rational to assume that God did not intend Scripture to be a scientific witness. As Calvin once said, God did not intend to teach us astronomy. Here's yet another. One's religious beliefs should be accepted without question and are the sole criterion upon which to judge the validity of all scientific work and research. Irrational. The purpose of science to test out your beliefs, however sacred they may be. There is only one God and so only one true church and it so happens it's ours and every other Christian is then dead wrong. Irrational. Bigotry at its highest. The Bible is subject to many interpretations in Christianity. The fundamentalist approach is just one. There are other, richer ones I and others would like to pursue. The Christian religion is monolithic, so there is just one way to be a Christian. Irrational. Christianity represents a rich plurality of diverse belief systems. That's great. That means we have freedom. If one approach doesn't work, you can try another. Not all Christians are on the right, not should be on the right. I found right-wing Christianity may certainly work for some, but it did not even begin to meet my emotional, spiritual, and intellectual needs.
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