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#157 Making sense of Adam, Eve and the Genesis creation story

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The Findings of Science and the Literal Interpretation of the Bible

The question of the Bible being quote, literally true unquote has been massive in North America. The Protestant emphasis on the Bible comes together with the Enlightenment emphasis on rationalism and you got a big problem. For evolution to work, you have to stretch it out of a massive millennia. This is where the idea of evolutionary development gets hooked up with a modern idea of progress that actually this is where everything is progressing.

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