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In this very thread, you've seen quotes of people from "world class universities" who say otherwise than you. I think the alternate interpretation of Barr's comment is more likely.
None of them Hebrew or OT scholars from Vanderbilt - or Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge... the world-class group that Barr was talking about. All of the compromised group have an "agenda" to try and shoehorn Darwinism into Genesis.
None of the guys in Barr's list have that as their starting agenda.
I guess we all knew that to start with.
And so the not-too-surprising result?
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[FONT="]Probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1-11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that (a) creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience; . . . Or, to put it negatively, the apologetic arguments which suppose the "days" of creation to be long eras of time, the figures of years not to be chronological, and the flood to be a merely local Mesopotamian flood, are not taken seriously by any such professors, as far as I know. [/FONT]
James Barr, letter to David Watson, 1984.
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The compromised by-faith-alone evolutionist position trying to eisegete room for blind-faith-evolutionism into Genesis, choose to make their stand strictly on "the kind of literature that Genesis is" and in so doing they place their POV squarely at odd with the professors of world-class universities that know a thing or two about 'the KIND of literature" that is found in the Hebrew text of Genesis.
So will not just be glaringly obvious to bible believing Christians - but also to these professors in even the most disconnected realm of academia who look at it purely from the standpoint of "literature".
in Christ,
Bob
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